CORRESPONDENCE, 1945-1965

Chiefly letters received and copies of letters sent by Frances Grant in her capacity as secretary of the ILHR and chairman of the Latin-American section. Many of the letters were sent to Grant by ILHR chairman Roger Baldwin for translation into Spanish. Other document types include speeches, programs, memoranda, minutes, and newspaper clippings.

Subjects include violations of human rights in Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Haiti; relations with the United Nations; relations with affiliates, particularly the Frente Mexicano Pro Derechos Humanos; fund-raising; and internal problems. Many letters are letters of protest to the U.N., to ambassadors, government officials, and the press about particular cases. Of particular interest is correspondence about the Reverend Dr. Michael Scott, whom the league appointed as consultant for the ILHR to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in 1949, enabling him to represent the Herero people of Southwest Africa. Also of interest are Grant's attempts to gather information and protest the treatment of Communist women in Chile (1948); a report of the activities of the Latin American Committee in 1949 concerning obtaining visas for political refugees; a presentation by Grant to a U.N. sub-commission on "The Right to Leave One's Own Country and Return to It" (1958); and correspondence concerning the deteriorating human rights situation in Cuba after the ascension of Fidel Castro.