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Wright, J. Skelly. Papers, 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986).

Title: Papers, 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986).

Personal and professional correspondence, case files, opinions, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, financial papers, teaching materials, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, documenting Wright's legal and judicial career. The bulk of the papers (1948-1986) pertains to his service as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1949-1962), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1962-1987), and the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals of the United States (1981-1987). Includes files on criminal, regulatory, civil rights, and school integration cases, the Watergate burglary cover-up, and John W. Hinckley, Jr.'s arrest for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Also includes material on Wright's tenure as a law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans, La. (1951-1961) and his early career as a notary public (1936-1942). Correspondents include Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., Jack Bass, Hugo LaFayette Black, Wayne G. Borah, H. Payne Breazeale, John Robert Brown, Ben F. Cameron, Robert Coles, Herbert Christenberry, Kenneth Culp Davis, Eberhard P. Deutsch, Susan Estrich, Abe Fortas, G.W. Foster, Jr., John Paul Frank, Fred W. Friendly, Joseph C. Hutcheson, J. Edward Lumbard, Sidney C. Mize, Lee Mortimer, Thomas F. Murphy, Frank T. Read, Eugene V. Rostow, Ralph Slovenko, and Simon Ernest Sobeloff.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear ft.

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Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979, 1926-1972

Title: Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979 1926-1972

Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond's father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond's two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions. Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunch, Rufus Clement, J.G. St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W.C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A.A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter Woodson and Monroe Work.

ArchivalResource: 169 boxes; (84.5 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums411.html View

J. Skelly Wright Papers, 1933-1987, (bulk 1948-1986)

Title: J. Skelly Wright Papers 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986)

Attorney, judge, and educator. Personal and professional correspondence, case files, opinions, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, financial papers, teaching material, clippings, printed matter, and photographs relating primarily to Wright's legal and judicial career.

ArchivalResource: 81,200 items; 232 containers; 116 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003076 View