This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, newspaper and magazine clippings, directives, pamphlets, press releases, personal notes, publications, orders, reports, studies, telegrams and letters sent and received by Assistant Attorneys General Joseph M. F. Ryan, W. Wilson White, Burke Marshall, John Doar, Drew Days III, J. Stanley Pottinger, J. Paul McGrath, Charles Cooper, David L. Norman, William Bradford Reynolds, and John R. Dunne during their service with the Civil Rights Division.
The records relate to subjects such as the United States Amicus school cases, lynching, anti-lynching legislation, school integration, segregation, anti-discrimination, the 1962 North Carolina sit-in cases, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, fair housing, election reform, American Indian religious freedom, the Child Nutrition Assistance Act, employment of illegal aliens, anti-busing, sex discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Family Protection Act, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Public School Civil Rights Act of 1983, affirmative action, redistricting, school desegregation, judicial appointments, rights of the disabled, antitrust violations, women's rights, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Title IX, immigration reform, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), police brutality, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and its predecessors.
Specific records of interest include a project report on pending federal legislation relating to sex discrimination; a memo on sex discrimination prepared for Attorney General Griffin Bell, dated January 8, 1977; a report on the internal Department of Justice (DOJ) Departmental Reorganization for 1982 and 1983, dated June 3, 1981; a memo on negotiations in the case of the United States v. William E. Colby, wherein the DOJ sued the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director over his memoir, "Honorable Men," dated December 2, 1981; a memo, dated September 30, 1982, on upcoming DOJ Policy Initiatives for 1982 and 1983; a memo on negotiating authority to settle claims between the United States and Iran, dated February 1, 1983; a memo on the case of the Church of Scientology v. the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), dated September 21, 1983; a memo on the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, dated May 11, 1983; and a letter from Clarence Thomas to the Assistant Attorney General on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), dated December 8, 1983.
