Legal records, 1956-1985.

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Legal records, 1956-1985.

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Contains criminal, civil rights, and family-related legal cases files, as well as papers related to black businesses and organizations that Crawford represented. In addition, there is information connected with the NAACP; local, state, and national bar associations; a local black nationalist group (the Neighborhood Organized Workers [NOW]), and the Reverend W.T. Phillips and the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God. Genre in the collection include campaign information, photographs, correspondence, newsclipping, billing records, speeches, financial data, and pleadings and other material typically found in lawsuit files.

109.75 cu. ft.

University of South Alabama, Marx Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7994589

University of South Alabama, Marx Library

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Mobile County (Ala.). Board of School Commissioners

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Crawford, Vernon Z., 1919-1986.

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Vernon Crawford was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1919, and graduated from the Allen Institute. During World War II he served as a merchant seaman and in 1951 graduated from Alabama State with a bachelor of science. Crawford attended the Brooklyn Law School, from where he earned a law degree in 1956. Some of the more important law suits originated by Crawford include L.B. Sullivan v. New York Times, State of Alabama v. Willie Seals, Bolden v. City of Mobile, Birdie Mae Davis v. Mobile County Schoo...

Vernon Z. Crawford Law Firm.

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Lowery, Reverend Joseph, b. 1921.

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LeFlore, John L., 1903-1976

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Coar, Judge David H., b. 1943.

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Judge David H. Coar was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 11, 1943. Coar was the oldest of three children and attended a religious school at the elementary level before graduating from a public high school in 1960. After commencement, Coar went to Syracuse University, earning his B.A. in 1964. In 1969, he earned his J.D. from Loyola University in Chicago, and a year later he received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.Coar began teaching at DePaul University in 1974, and remained there for f...

Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God

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Phillips, W. T. (William Thomas), 1893-1973.

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Neighborhood Organized Workers.

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Figures, Michael A., d. 1996.

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