For the most recent work on this topic, refer to current publications

Articles

Clarke, Frank K., "Debilitating Divisions: The Civil Liberties Movement in Early Cold War Canada, 1946-8," in Whose National Security? surveillance and the creation of enemies in Canada, Gary Kinsman, ed., Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000.

Clément, Dominique, "An Exercise in Futility? Regionalism, State Funding and Ideology as Obstacles to the Formation of a National Social Movement Organization in Canada" BC Studies (Summer 2005, No.146). 

Clément, Dominique, ‘I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights’: Women and the Human Rights State, 1969-1984” Radical History Review (Issue 101, Spring 2008).

Clément, Dominique, "‘It is Not the Beliefs but the Crime that Matters:’ Post-War Civil Liberties Debates in Canada and Australia" Labour History (Australia) 86 (May 2004.

Frager, Ruth and Patrias, Carmela, "‘This Is Our Country, These Are Our Rights': Minorities and the Origins of Ontario's Human Rights Campaigns," The Canadian Historical Review (Vol. 82, No. 1, March 2001).

Lambertson, Ross, "The Dresden Story: Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee  of Canada," Labour/Le Travail (Vol.  No. 47, Spring 2001): 43-82.

Petryshyn, J., "A.E. Smith and the Canadian Labour Defence League," (PhD, University of Western Ontario, 1977).

Walker, James, "The ‘Jewish Phase' in the Movement for Racial Equality in Canada," Canadian Ethnic Studies (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2002).

Books

Bangarth, Stephanie, Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942–49 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007).

Borovoy, Alan, When Freedoms Collide: The Case for Our Civil Liberties (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Denny's, 1988).

Clément, Dominique, Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008).

Hannant, Larry, The Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada's Citizens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).

Lambertson, Ross, Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

Laurin, Lucie, Des Luttes et Des Droits: Antécédants et histoire de la Ligue des Droits de l’Homme de 1936-1975, Montréal: Éditions du Meridien, 1985.

MacLennan, Christopher, Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, 1996).