African American lawyers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel Ellis Byrd papers
Collection
Identifier: 068
Scope and Contents
The papers of attorney and civil rights activist Daniel Ellis Byrd include correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical data, minutes, financial records, resolutions, agendas, lists, and collected items. Many of the documents chronicle Daniel Byrd's involvement in activities related to his employment as an NAACP field secretary for forty years and as assistant director of the Department of Teacher Information and Security of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Subjects treated in...
Dates:
Created: 1940-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1977; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1977
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Daniel Ellis Byrd papers
James A. Cobbs collection
Collection
Identifier: 771
Content Description
This collection consists mainly of photographs related to the live of judge and law professor James A. Cobb. The earliest, though undated, photographs appear to be of faculty at a university, perhaps that of Howard University in Washington, D.C. Included is a mounted photograph of a group of men posed in front of a building, a mounted photograph of a group of women before the same building, and one of the two groups dining together outside. Two photographs of Judge Cobb include a portrait in...
Dates:
Other: 1923-1957
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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James A. Cobbs collection
Charles E. Donegan papers
Collection
Identifier: 517
Content Description
Charles E. Donegan, born in Chicago, is an attorney, hearings officer, and educator in private practice as a labor arbitrator, mediator, and attorney in Washington, D.C. Mr. Donegan has a J.D. from Howard University and a Master of Laws degree from Columbia University. He was the first African American law professor at SUNY-Buffalo and taught at Howard University, Ohio State University, Southern University-Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, and North Carolina Central University. His...
Dates:
Other: 1960-1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Charles E. Donegan papers
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Nils R. Douglas papers
Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society records
Collection — 5 Boxes
Identifier: ##6jb
Scope and Contents
The records of the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society are comprised mainly of documents generated during the presidencies of Ernestine Gray and Cheryl A. Gray, and date from 1973-2005. The records for the terms of these two presidents are not complete, but consist of correspondence, articles of incorporation and by-laws, financial records, membership lists, committee and society agendas and minutes, newsletters, photographs, brochures, invitations, and programs. Of note are...
Dates:
Created: 1973-2014; Other: Date acquired: 02/13/2009
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Heslip-Ruffin Family papers
National Bar Association collection
Collection
Identifier: 264
Content Description
The collection consists primarily of publicity ephemera for the National Bar Association (NBA) and contains publications, annual convention materials, photographs, programs, press clippings, and other materials. The collection also documents the NBA's 71st annual convention held in Chicago. Included are programs, fliers, brochures and other related ephemera for the 71st convention. Also included with the collection are correspondence, news articles, programs, and publications from the 1997...
Dates:
Other: 1924-2016
Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation records
Collection
Identifier: 288
Scope and Contents
The Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation records document an employment racial discrimination lawsuit filed by African American workers at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Chalmette, Louisiana in 1967. The collection spans 1951-1985, and includes the years leading up to the case and the decades that followed, as the case went through various court systems. The collection consists of court records from Orleans Parish District Court and the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court....
Dates:
Created: 1951-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1985; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1985