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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

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

Edgar and Jean Cahn Papers

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-005

Dates: 1953 - 1978

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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

Simon Rosenthal Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-006

Dates: 1965 - 1979

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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