Papers, 1937-1991.

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Papers, 1937-1991.

Copies of a letter from Grenville Clark on the Gobitis brief, relating to a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court about a dispute between Walter Gobitis and the Minersville, Pa., Board of School Directors concerning flag saluting and religious liberty; article published in the Sept. 21, 1968 issue of New Republic on the Clabaugh Act, which served to keep Communist speakers off the campuses of the University of Illinois between 1947 and 1968; statement on freedom of speech; program for a school desegration conference at Edwardsville, Ill.; and paper (19 p.) on the role of Earl Warren in the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (Kan.) case. No papers dated between 1960 and 1967, or 1969 and 1978.

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Clark, Grenville, 1882-1967

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Grenville Clark : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131473 Clark was born in New York City in 1882. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1903 and his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1906. In 1906 he was admitted to the New York Bar, and in 1909 he opened a law practice in New York City with Elihu Root Jr. and Francis W. Bird. During 1...

Gobitis, Walter

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Dilliard, Irving, 1904-2002

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Trustee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (earlier name: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)); editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page. From the description of Papers, 1937-1991. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28410478 Editorial page editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and champion of victims of injustice, Dilliard served as a sponsor for the 1960 centennial celebration of Jane Addams who devoted her l...