Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

Professor of law at University of Michigan, and specialist in corporation law. Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, notes, and manuscripts of books and articles, relating to his professional career, Ann Arbor, Michigan organizations and issues, particularly progressive political movements and prohibition, including the Michigan Anti-Saloon League, the anti-trust movement, and the 1912 Progressive Party; also photographs.

The Horace L. Wilgus papers include correspondence, speeches, clippings, notes, manuscripts of books and articles dealing with his professional career, the many Ann Arbor organizations and issues in which he was interested: particularly progressive political movements and prohibition, including the Michigan Anti-Saloon League, the anti-trust movement, and the 1912 Progressive Party. The collection also includes University of Michigan Law School course materials, family genealogical information, and a small series of photographs, many of them of his home on Washtenaw Ave. in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Citizen action group formed in 1979 to provide information to the public concerning the legal, ethical, and practical implications of capital punishment. Executive committee memoranda and minutes, position statements, press material, newsletters and other publications, and videocassette. Citizen action group formed in 1979 to provide information to the public concerning the legal, ethical, and practical implications of capital punishment. Executive committee memoranda and minutes, position statements, press material, newsletters and other publications, and videocassette.

The records of the Michigan Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 1966-1987, are arranged in one alphabetical series. Material includes brochures, executive committee memoranda and minutes, local chapter information (from Grand Rapids, Lansing, Oakland County, Washtenaw County, and Wayne County), newsletters, newspaper clippings, position statements in opposition to capital punishment, press relations, speakers manual, and a videocassette, "Trial and Error," which depicts the trial and execution of a Detroit area resident in Sandwich, Ontario in 1837. Also present, in small quantities, is material from the Citizens for Capital Punishment and Religious Leaders Against the Death Penalty organizations.