A. Leon Higginbotham Personal Papers, 1960-1996

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A. Leon Higginbotham Personal Papers, 1960-1996

1960-1996

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Papers 1960-1996. Lawyer, government official, judge, educator, author. Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (1962-1964); judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1964-1977); Vice Chairman, National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1968-1969); judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (1977-1993); professor of law, Harvard University (1993-1998); author, In the Matter of Color (1978). Personal, professional, and legal files including correspondence, memorandums, reports, writings, speeches, and news clippings; material dealing with the judiciary and legal reform; teaching materials, published writings.

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Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-1998

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Aloysius Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1928-1998) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Aloysius Higginbotham, a factory worker, and Emma Lee Douglass Higginbotham, a maid. Young Higginbotham attended Ewing Park, a black segregated public elementary school, and integrated an all-white high school. As an adolescent, he worked as a hotel busboy, shoe store porter, and laborer. He excelled in school, demonstrating great skill in logic and language. A serious student, one summer he regularly rode his bicycl...