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Collection

Identifier: NEJL-019

Dates: 1966 - 2016

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-043

Scope and Contents The Alfred Corbett Papers is arranged in five series. Most of the materials in the first series (Oregon), were collected during Corbett's service as Oregon State Representative and later as State Senator from 1956 until 1965. The second series documents his work with the Office of Economic Opportunity/Legal Services Program (OEO/LSP), and includes reports and evaluations of several Community Action Agencies and planning and budgeting for nation-wide and regional...

Dates: 1965-1977, 1993

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Antone G. "Gerry" Singsen Papers

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-026

Scope and Contents

This collection largely contains meeting material from various LSC groups: Board of Directors; Committee on Appropriations and Audit, Office of Field Services, Committee on Operations and Regulations, Presidential Search Committees and others. Of note is a draft monitoring report that gives an analysis of the program at Legal Services of North Carolina, Inc., including a response by the LSNC to that report. Miscellaneous articles and manuals are listed under the "Topical" file.

Dates: 1977 - 1994

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Blossom Athey Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-018

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a reprint from Howard Westwood from the Howard Law Journal; correspondence with Navajo leader Peter MacDonald; a pamphlet from the Navajo Reservation's DNA's People Legal Services (DNA is an anagram for the Navajo phrase that translates to "attorneys who work for the economic revitalization of the people); material from the 1999 Servant of Justice Awards; an OEO memo; and a scan of a photo with Athey, Hillary Clinton and others.

Dates: 1967 - 2000

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Brennan Center for Justice Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-021

Scope and Contents

This collection largely comprises publications and papers but also includes job announcements, newsletters and annual reports.

Dates: 1999 - 2001

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

California Rural Legal Assistance Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-010

Dates: 1971

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Carol Ruth Silver Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-038

Scope and Contents

The records include materials from Carol Ruth Silver's services as a legal services attorney in the 1960s, the early days of the legal services program. They include files from Berkeley Neighborhood Legal Services, California Rural Regal Services Delano Office, Alamada County Legal Aid Society Fruitvale Office, and material from Silver's consulting work for the NLADA in Alaska. They cover the period from 1967-1971.

Dates: 1967 - 1972

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Clinton Cross Papers

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-042

Original scope and content note The papers of Clinton Cross document the creation and growth of the national Legal Services Corporation (LSC) as well as of legal services in Texas. The documents reflect the support of and opposition to the Legal Services Corporation Act (LSCA) in the early 1970s. Cross’ collection also demonstrates hostility to legal services between 1970 and 1980 in Texas, containing memos and articles that discuss whether legal services should receive public funding and whether the state or federal...

Dates: 1969 - 1991

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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