Additions including chapter files, subject files, committee materials, correspondence,
minutes, memoranda, press releases, platforms, speeches and Congressional testimony,
financial reports, fund raising letters, photographs, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters,
Congressional voting records issued by ADA, convention materials, and papers on special
events such as the annual Roosevelt Day Dinners, the ADA Roosevelt Centennial Conference
(1982), and the ADA Citizens' Energy Oversight Hearings (1981). Also included are
records of UDA, the predecessor of ADA; ADA (formerly UDA) Educational Fund, Inc.; the
ADA Political Action Committee; the ADA Youth Caucus (formerly Students for Democratic
Action and Campus ADA); and the first half of an unpublished history of ADA. The records
also document the ADA's relationship with the Democratic National Committee and the
Democratic National Party, and the active role taken by Leon Shull, who became national
director in 1964.
