PUBLICATIONS, , 1950-1980

Publications of the IADF. Document types include bulletins, pamphlets, books and microfilm. Includes a complete run of Hemispherica, the monthly bulletin of the U.S. Committee of the IADF, which was published from 1951 to 1980. Also includes the Spanish language edition, published from 1963 to 1980, and a microfilm copy of the English edition. Two copies of each issue were retained when possible. Hemispherica was published approximately ten times a year; it was not published in 1952 and the May 1978 issue is missing. Frances Grant served as editor throughout the period. The purpose of Hemispherica was to report on the state of democratic institutions in the Western Hemisphere. It included reports of elections, violations of human rights, political prisoners and other issues in various Latin American and Caribbean countries. Also included reports on IADF activities, visits of leaders, and international conferences. Most of the articles and the monthly editorial were written by Frances Grant, but articles by other members of the U.S. Committee, such as Professors Robert Alexander and Jordan Young, and interviews with government officials and political refugees, are also included.

This series also includes pamphlets and books published by the IADF (.5 cubic feet). Among these are reports in English and Spanish of the two inter-American conferences, and two tributes to Venezuelan president Rómulo Betancourt upon successive visits to the United States. Two copies of each publication were retained where possible.

Series also includes a card index to Hemispherica (1951-1979), which indexes articles in the newsletter by personal name, country, and subject, as well as a chronology of the articles in each issue; and a one-file paper index (1969-1980), indexed by country and subject. The card index is stored separately.