Favorite Archival Object: Loyalty Oaths, 1947-1956

Seattle Municipal Archives unearths Cold War-era worker loyalty oaths

2/20/20242:39

In this installment, Seattle Municipal Archives' Reference Archivist Jeanie Fisher presents the Loyalty Oaths collection, which contains oaths signed by City workers during the 1950s during the Cold War era.

View more from the "Favorite Archival Object" series here.

SMA MATERIAL CITATIONS
– Civil Services Department Documents
– Item 195174
– Item 28986
– Item 135067
– Item 193888
– Item 73723
– Item 73711
– Item 24092
– Item 39708
– Item 44348
– Item 44954
– Item 44957
– Item 44958
– Item 52442
– Item 3

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
– “55 at UW File Loyalty Oath Suit.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SUNRISE ed., 7 June 1962, p. 1. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current
– “U.S. Supreme Court Bans Loyalty Oaths at U.W.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SUNRISE ed., 1 June 1964, p. 2. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current
– “Loyalty Oaths No Longer Required of State Employes.” Seattle Daily Times , NIGHT SPORTS FINAL ed., 30 June 1964, p. 11. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current

All of the videos from the "Favorite Archival Object" series feature the following:
– Footage in introduction titles: Seattle Channel, Item cs_112119_3071924V
– Music: "The Plan's Working" by Cooper Cannellis from YouTube's Audio Library (Creative Commons)

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