Office of Economic Opportunity. Legal Services Program
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Clinton Bamberger Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-033
Scope and Contents
The papers of E. Clinton Bamberger Jr. document Bamberger's career as a legal services administrator, educator, and advocate. The collection, to some extent, also documents the history of legal services in the United States from the mid 1960's through the mid 1990's. And while some items such as articles and neighborhood law office handbooks and manuals pre-date the mid-1960's, the collection essentially begins with Bamberger's arrival on the scene as the first Director of the Legal...
Dates:
ca. 1960-ca. 1990
Earl Johnson Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-015
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three series: Interviews, NEJL historical materials, and Access to Justice materials. The interview collection consists of forty-nine interviews conducted by Johnson as part of his research for the book Justice And Reform: The Formative Years of the American Legal Services Program, first published in 1974 by the Russell Sage Foundation. Justice and Reform is the only comprehensive survey of the history of the Legal Services Program (LSP) within the...
Dates:
1964 - 1974
Henry A. Freedman Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-014
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Legal Services Corporation (LSC) materials covering such matters as litigation with LSC as defendant, back-up centers, and legislation. Other materials relate to Action for Legal Rights and other legal organizations such as NLADA and Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy. Forms of material include memos, news clippings, journal articles, reports and brochures.The Henry A. Freedman papers are organized into two series: Legal Services Corporation materials and...
Dates:
1967 - 2000
Hulett "Bucky" Askew Collection
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-031
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises articles, background papers, memoranda, etc. related to Askew's work with the LSC. Also included is the decision of the U.S. Court Of Appeals D.C. Circuit, in National Senior Citizens Law Center v. Legal Services Corporation. The photographs contained in the collection include stills taken from the film Day of Justice, ca. 1977 and various legal services gatherings between 1983 and 1988.
Dates:
1975 - 1993
John Cummiskey Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-001
Scope and Contents
This collection largely comprises John W. Cummiskey’s files related to his activities with the Legal Services Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Materials include correspondence, articles, reports and writings. The bulk of the collection is correspondence related to various issues involving legal services at the OEO. Much of the correspondence is grouped together in folders with multiple correspondents and other material (usually included as enclosures) that relate to a...
Dates:
1957 - 1980
Found in:
National Equal Justice Library
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John Cummiskey Papers
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- Legal services -- United States 6
- War on Poverty 3
- Legal assistance to the poor 2
- Brady v. Maryland 1
- Education 1
- Indigent defense -- United States 1
- Law -- Study and teaching -- United States 1
- Legal aid -- Clinical education 1
- Legal aid -- International 1
- Legal aid -- South Africa 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- California 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- Connecticut -- New Haven 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- Louisiana -- Baton Rouge 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- Maryland -- Baltimore 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland 1
- Legal services 1
- Legal services -- Photographs 1
- Oral history -- United States 1
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