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NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns—Legal Department Files

NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns—Legal Department Files

This module consists of Papers of the NAACP Legal Department from 1956-1972. For the period from 1956-1965, this includes the working case files of the NAACP’s general counsel, Robert Carter. Among the topics covered in these cases are school desegregation, abuses of police procedure, freedom of speech, desegregation of public facilities, voting rights, housing discrimination, and employment discrimination. The files include the background correspondence of NAACP attorneys as well as court documents, including transcripts of court proceedings. A small sampling of the important cases in this module include NAACP v. Alabama (freedom of association), Gomillion v. Lightfoot (voting rights), Allen v. County School Board and Griffin v. County School Board (school desegregation in Virginia), Ogletree v. McNamara (employment discrimination), and Powell v. McCormack (seating of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the U.S. House of Representatives).

For a longer description, and list of titles included, see link, below.

Events

Sit-in demonstrations
NAACP position on sit-ins in San Francisco, California, Columbia, South Carolina, and the South; reports on protest demonstrations; NAACP racial defense policy; and SCLC criticism of NAACP, 1960-1964. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1960 - Dec 31, 1964
Freedom Rides
Bailey v. Patterson desegregation case, 1961. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1961 - Dec 31, 1961

Major Cases

NAACP v Alabama
... and related NAACP v. Patterson transcript of preliminary matter, 1956. This case asserts the NAACP's right of association free of state interference. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1956 - Dec 31, 1956
Dove v. Parham
... school desegregation case, transcript, June 30, 1959. This case involves the Jefferson County, Arkansas, school desegregation case. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jun 30, 1959 - Jun 30, 1959

Major Cases, cont.

Gomillion v. Lightfoot
Racial violence and civil rights issues in Tuskegee, Alabama. This case deals with gerrymandering and voting rights in Alabama. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses. Date: Jan 01, 1957 - Dec 31, 1960
Griffin v. County School Board
...school desegregation case, lawyers notes and drafts, 1963-1964 This case involves school desegregation in Virginia. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1963 - Dec 31, 1964
People v. Sostre
... possession of narcotics case, lawyer's notes and drafts on court proceedings, 1968-1970. Case involves Buffalo bookstore owner Martin Sostre charged by Buffalo police with inciting persons to riot, arson, possession and sale of narcotics, and resisting arrest. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1968 - Dec 31, 1970
Powell v. McCormack
... misuse of public funds case, 1942-1950, 1967, and undated. This case involves House of Representatives decision to bar Adam Clayton Powell from Congress. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1942 - Dec 31, 1967
Ogletree v. McNamara
... federal employment discrimination case, 1966. This case involves discrimination in federal employment involving employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1966 - Dec 31, 1966

Major Cases, cont.

Bradley v. Milliken
... segregation case, October-November 1971. This case involves Detroit, Michigan school desegregation and school busing case. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files Date: Oct 01, 1971 - Nov 30, 1971
Brown v. Board of Education
... school segregation case, 1952-1954. Found in: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files. Date: Jan 01, 1952 - Dec 31, 1954

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