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, United States.
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.
[2] Deciding to move the library to another location, O'Hair, along with her future murderer David Waters, individually packed each book in special acid-free paper to be shipped to a secret storage facility.
[8] Despite all of the IRS problems, official releases from the American Atheists claim the move was simply for space issues and that the library needed to be bigger.
According to the current CESAALA librarian Timothy Dicks, the library still has "a huge quantity of letters, ephemera, and other items that we have to identify and catalogue.
"[9] There also are thousands of hours' worth of audio and video recordings being archived at the library on a wide variety of media.