V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES FILES,, 1958-1988

Grouped alphabetically by heading and thereafter chronologically. Documentation of professional organizations and activities in which Professor Alexander was involved outside of his Rutgers University activities. Document types include correspondence, minutes, reports, budgets, telegrams and press clippings. Includes documentation of the Alliance for Progress Study Group (a sub-group of the International Study Group on Freedom and Democracy which focused on Latin American policy); and the American Civil Liberties Union Academic Freedom Committee, for which Alexander was nominated in 1962. The largest group of material, however, documents the International Institute for Labor Research, Inc. (1958-1965), of which Alexander was a board member. Files on the International Institute for Labor Research document discussion of the policies, structure and funding of the organization; its publication and educational programs; personnel and other internal issues; and events leading to the dissolution of the organization in 1966. Most of the material concerns the institute's programs in Latin America, namely the Institute for Political Education in Costa Rica, the Inter-American Center for Political Training in the Dominican Republic and the Centro de Estudios y Documentación in Mexico. Important correspondents include Costa Rican president José Figueres, institute president Norman Thomas, and secretary Sacha Volman.