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Burton Fretz Opposition to the LSC Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-057

Scope and Contents These materials were generated during the early Reagan administration and collected by long-time legal aid advocate Burton Fretz, the former director of the Senior Citizens Law Center, The documents reflect efforts to eliminate federal funding for public interest law through the Legal Services Corporation and the Department of Health and Human Services. The collection includes, for example, strategy papers by the Heritage Foundation on how to undermine federal funding for legal services, and...

Dates: 1980 - 1982

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Cait Clarke Papers

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-056

Scope and Contents

Cait Clarke, the Assistant Director at the Office of Defender Services, Administrative Office of the United States Courts and former director of Strategic Initiatives at the NLADA, has been a long-time legal educator and advocate, and has been teaching, training, and consulting on the law, policy reform and leadership skills. She was the founding Director of National Defender Leadership Institute. Her papers include reports, documentation, and training materials for defenders.

Dates: 1998 - 2013

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

California Rural Legal Assistance Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-010

Dates: 1971

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Carl S. Coan, Sr. Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-027

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Carl A. S. Coan Collection in Housing and Urban Affairs contains the personal papers, manuscripts, and materials related to Mr. Coan's work as staff director for the Democratic members of the Senate Subcommitte on Housing and Urban Affairs, a position he held for over twenty five years. The correspondence and materials found in Coan's papers are largely concerned with the legislation enacted over the period 1961-1976 to promote federal housing project programs.

Dates: Bulk, 1961-1975 1954-1976; Majority of material found within 1961 - 1975

Found in: Manuscripts

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

Carolyn Waller Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-063

Scope and Contents Waller’s papers include documentation of the organization and the work of the WHO, including a copy of the Articles of Incorporation, Board meeting minutes from 1990-1995, background reports on Haiti issued by the WHO, press releases, and newsletters, including releases from the Haiti National Network Fax Transmission Service. Reports include a WHO Report on the elections in Haiti in 1990, and a 1994 analysis of the USAID Democracy Enhancement Project. In addition, Waller’s papers include...

Dates: 1980 - 1995

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Center for a New Democracy

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-064

Scope and Contents

The collection contains campaign finance reform materials, organized by state. Materials include case summaries, press releases, state statutes correspondence, and articles.

Dates: 1993 - 1996

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Center for Law and Education

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-076

Dates: 1969 - 1995

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

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