Jasper Alston Atkins papers, 1922-1997 (inclusive).

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Jasper Alston Atkins papers, 1922-1997 (inclusive).

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The papers consist of legal documents, writings, clippings, correspondence, and photographs that document the career of Jasper Alston Atkins. The papers emphasize Atkins' civil rights court cases.

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Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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Atkins, Jasper Alston, 1898-1982.

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Jasper Alston Atkins was born August 8, 1898, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1919 and from Yale Law School in 1922. He practiced law in Oklahoma and Texas from 1922-1936 before returning to North Carolina to serve as executive secretary for Winston-Salem Teachers College from 1936-1960. Throughout his career, Atkins worked for the advancement of civil rights. Jasper Alston Atkins died June 28, 1982. From the description...

Yale Law School

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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Seth P. Staples (Yale 1797) opened a school for law students in New Haven. In 1824 the school became affiliated with Yale College. The college conferred its first law degrees in 1843. The course of study originally extended for two years, and in 1896 it was lengthened to three years. Subsequently a college degree became a prerequisite for the Bachelor of Laws degree. Graduate courses leading to advanced degrees began in 1876. In 1926 honors courses ...