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Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives
Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives (CESAALA) is a collection of over 40,000 volumes of books, documents, and various other research tools located in Cranford, New Jersey. It was founded by the American Atheists and currently records oral histories of various intellectuals and lecturers.〔Randy Hall. (Atheist Activists Look to Future During Easter Convention ) CNSNews.com March 28, 2005〕 The library also contains “historical pamphlets, leather-bound volumes, early free-thought publications, and other separationist arcana” 〔Dracos, Ted. Ungodly: The Passions, Torments, and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair. Free Press. 2003. Pp. 161〕 The library is valued at between $1 million and $3 million and is one of American Atheists' most valuable assets.〔Robert Bryce.(The Mystery of the Vanishing Atheists Continues: Abducted by Aliens? ) ''Austin Chronicle.'' November 20, 1998〕 The American Atheist Press is a division of the Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library.〔(American Atheist Press ) Skeptic Files〕
==Charles E. Stevens==
The library is named for Charles E. Stevens, a stonemason from Hawthorne, California. Stevens had fought in the Spanish Civil War and was well into his 80s when he first donated money to Madalyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheists.〔Seaman, Ann Rowe. America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair. Continuum. 2005. Pp. 113.〕 He supported O’Hair and her fight to banish mandatory prayer in public schools and supported free thought. He wrote to O’Hair, telling her that when he was growing up he was too poor to afford books and wanted to now support the building of a library that would promote works often banned from other libraries. Deeply touched by his sentiment, O’Hair vowed to name the finished library after Stevens, which got its official name in 1969.〔 Stevens first wrote a check for $1,000 on February 26, 1965. A scanned copy of the original check can be found at the CESAALA website. Over the course of his lifetime, Stevens donated $8,000 to O’Hair and the library, which was his entire life’s savings. When O’Hair learned that Stevens had donated all the money he had,〔http://www.cesaala.org〕 she tried to contact him to return the funds, only to discover that he had since died.
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