Legal assistance to the poor

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: LC control no.: sh 85075731 LCCN permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/sh85075731

Found in 3 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
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
Patricia Wald Collection
 Collection
Identifier: NEJL-039
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a draft copy of a report by Patricia Wald that would later be called, "Law and Poverty 1965: A Report to the National Conference on Law and Poverty." In this draft, it is titled, "Legal Problems of the Poor..."

Dates: 1965
Found in: National Equal Justice Library