Reminiscences of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel : oral history, 1974.

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Reminiscences of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel : oral history, 1974.

Harvard, 1904-08; Columbia Law School; early law practice; Soviet cases; Norris, Patterson, Trop, and Leyra cases; American Civil Liberties Union, National Lawyer's Guild; obscenity, civil liberties, equal rights, communism in Unites States; publications; impressions of Arthur Garfield Hays, Morris Ernst, Alger Hiss, United States Supreme Court Justices.

Transcript: 144 leaves.Tape: 5 reels.

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Fraenkel, Osmond K. (Osmond Kessler), 1888-1983

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Lawyer; interviewee d.1983. From the description of Reminiscences of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734307 Fraenkel was a New York City lawyer who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's Board of Directors and as its general counsel. From the description of Osmond K. Fraenkel diaries, 1933-1968. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 82393949 Lawyer. ...

American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Bloom, Marc, 1939-

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National Lawyers Guild

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The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in 1937 as an association of progressive lawyers and jurists who believed that lawyers had a major role to play in reconstructing legal values by emphasizing human rights over property rights. From its inception, the Guild welcomed into its ranks all members of the profession without regard to race, gender or ethnic identity; it was the first national legal professional association to do so. Since its founding, the Guild has been instrumental in leadi...