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Records. 1970-1977.

1970-1977

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Created in 1970 to focus on racial integration of federal and state judiciaries, prison reform, and related issues. Ca. 1.6 ft. including correspondence, minutes, financial records, resolutions, newsletters, lists, photographs, press releases, and other printed items. The Council was created in 1970 as an independent section of the National Bar Association, and Crockett was appointed coordinator. The Council has its own officers, by-laws, programs, and treasury. Correspondence is mostly to or from Crockett and usually concerns itself with membership of the Council, issues such as prison reform, busing, and integration of federal and state judiciaries. The various conventions of the Council also generated many of the materials. Notable correspondents whose papers are also held by the Center include Raymond Pace Alexander and Ernest N. Morial. Other jurists represented among the correspondents are A. Leon Higginbotham and Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. Other national figures included are Richard M. Nixon, William Hastie, Charles Percy, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Hooks, and Kenneth Clark.

1.6 linear ft. (C.C.) 4 Boxes.

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