Consumer Reports. A.J. Isserman papers, 1917-1974 and undated

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Creator:
Consumer Reports (Firm)
Abstract:
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Abraham J. Isserman was a labor lawyer, counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1930s, and one of the original members of the Board of Directors of Consumers Union. The Consumer Reports A.J. Isserman papers includes correspondence, clippings, court briefs and depositions, book manuscript drafts, photographs and other printed materials relating to Isserman's work in civil rights and labor law. Topics include labor union activities and strikes, civil liberties, communist influence, investigations into Un-American activities, deportation, and disbarment of lawyers. Persons and institutions reflected in the collection include the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, the Dies Committee, Judge Harold Medina, and Leinhard Bergel. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
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Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11778

Background

Scope and content:

The Consumer Reports A.J. Isserman papers include correspondence, clippings, court briefs and depositions, book manuscript drafts, photographs and other printed materials relating to Isserman's work in civil rights and labor law. Topics include labor union activities and strikes, civil liberties, communist influence, investigations into Un-American activities, deportation, and disbarment of lawyers. Persons and institutions reflected in the collection include the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, the Dies Committee, Judge Harold Medina, and Leinhard Bergel. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Abraham J. Isserman was a labor lawyer, counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1930s, and one of the original members of the Board of Directors of Consumers Union.

Abraham J. Isserman was born in 1900 in Belgium. Isserman served with the Royal Fusiliers during World War I. Isserman served as Counsel to ACLU 1930s-1941 and as defense counsel for strikers at Consumers Research who were fired during the 1935 strike. Isserman was a member of the Consumers Union Board of Directors from 1936. Isserman was part of the defense counsel during the Foley Square trial of 1949, in the course of which Isserman was disbarred in 1952, and later reinstated in 1961. Isserman was a partner in the Isserman and Isserman legal firm. Isserman died in 1988 in New York.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. A.J. Isserman papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Richard Collier, Oct. 2019;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Personal and Professional Files; Disbarment and Reinstatement

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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