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subj11. Civil Rights Holdings

 Record Group
Identifier: subj11
Holdings related to attorneys, cases, and the judiciary documenting the struggle for civil rights

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Marceline Donaldson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 603
Content Description The Marceline Donaldson papers pertain primarily to Donaldson's fund-raising activities as coordinator for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's campaign in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. The papers include correspondence, rosters, a handbook, news clippings, and printed items geared toward orientation for the Contributions Committee. Correspondents include Jack Greenberg and Anna Frank. Additional topics within the collection include Donaldson’s affirmative action lawsuit against...
Dates: Other: 1972-1986

Nils R. Douglas papers

 Collection
Identifier: 128
Scope and Contents The Nils R. Douglas papers consist primarily of items collected or generated by attorney Nils R. Douglas, concerning Louis Andre Martinet and the legal society that bears his name, in addition to those concerning the case of Plessy v. Ferguson and the life of Homer A. Plessy. In addition, the bound personal manuscripts of Nils Douglas reflect his years as a prominent civil rights attorney, representing activists from the Congress of Racial Equality along with his law partners Robert F....
Dates: Created: 1893-1967; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1979

Stanley Moreland Douglas papers

 Collection
Identifier: 129
Scope and Contents The papers of former Assistant New York State Attorney General Stanley Moreland Douglas contain correspondence, clippings, photographs, elections materials, and other collected materials largely pertaining to Douglas' career and active civic and political life. Correspondence includes several letters of congratulations regarding Douglas' appointment to Assistant Attorney General; a 1944 letter to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey reporting as Dewey's representative at a conference on better...
Dates: Created: 1909-1977; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1985

Edward R. Dudley papers

 Collection
Identifier: 136
Scope and Contents The Edward R. Dudley papers consist of correspondence, speeches, reports, press clippings, and other materials dating from when Dudley was legal counsel to the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands and when he was Ambassador to Liberia, Manhattan Borough President, and Administrative Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York. The correspondence, which is arranged chronologically, includes letters, memoranda, radiograms, and interoffice communiqués. About one half...
Dates: Created: 1942-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1945-1950; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973

Emergency Land Fund records

 Collection
Identifier: 148
Content Description The Emergency Land Fund was created in 1972 to reverse the trend of descreasing black ownership of lands in the rural South. The records of the fund include correspondence (carbons and photostatics copies primarily), mostly outgoing but some incoming. Other record types include agenda, studies and reports, memoranda, financial records, and news clippings. Topics contained in the records include the effect of the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on black ownership of farms in...
Dates: Other: 1972-1980

Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund records

 Collection
Identifier: 151
Content Description The Federation of Southern Cooperatives (FSC) was founded to assist African American farmers, reverse the trend of decline in Black ownership of land in the South, and to develop cooperatives and credit unions as a means to assist individuals and families in rural and low-income communities. The records of FSC include voluminous correspondence, memoranda, studies, reports, statistical data, photographs, financial records, newsletters and publications both generated and collected by the...
Dates: Other: 1910, 1942-1996

Peter A. Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: 164
Content Description The Peter A. Hall papers contain business and personal correspondence, news clippings, legal briefs, financial records, honors and awards, and a resolution presented by the Birmingham City Council on the death of Hall's mother, Josephine Hall. Hall's papers document his affiliations with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the United Presbyterian Church, Operation New Birmingham, the Alabama Democratic Conference, and various civil rights organizations. Other records document his legal practice, his...
Dates: Other: 1960-1986

Heslip-Ruffin Family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 179
Scope and Contents The Heslip-Ruffin Family Papers pertain to several generations of the Ruffin family beginning with Nancy Lewis and George W. Ruffin, who were both ante-bellum free Blacks. The collection includes correspondence between various family members and letters received by members of the Heslip-Ruffin Family, including those by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Legal documents, biographical data, news clippings, printed ephemera, and photographs document the achievements of various...
Dates: Created: 1822-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1972

Frank S. Horne papers

 Collection
Identifier: 189
Scope and Contents

The papers of Frank Smith Horne measure approximately 22 linear feet and consist of 30,000 items dated between 1927 and 1974. Over half of the papers of the collection is personal and business correspondence. The other half consists of financial records, lists, minutes, legal documents, writings, press releases, reports, general items, newspaper clippings, and various collected publications. The papers have been arranged topically and chronologically.

Dates: Created: 1927-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975

Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring

 Collection
Identifier: 199
Scope and Contents The Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring documents the life and career of Judge Julius Waties Waring. The collection highlights the activites and ideologies of Waring, his wife, Elizabeth, and to a smaller extent his daughter, Anne. The collection encompasses 0.4. linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, invitations, speeches, and newspaper clippings related to the Waring family. Jenkins, a close friend of the Warings, collected the materials to honor Waring,...
Dates: Created: 1948-1968; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1972