Arthur Christopher papers, ca. 1900-1968.

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Arthur Christopher papers, ca. 1900-1968.

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Includes correspondence, official reports, directives, and decisions from Christopher's work as a legal assistant and trial examiner with the National Labor Relations Board; together with papers relating to his private law practice and his activities with legal, civic, fraternal, and educational organizations (including PTAs) in the Washington, D.C. area. Other topics represented include the Christopher family. Other corporate entities represented include the Federal Bar Association, the National Lawyers Guild, and Howard University.

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

Federal bar association

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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...

Christopher family.

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Christopher, Arthur, 1913-1967

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Lawyer, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Arthur Christopher papers, ca. 1900-1968. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 740065494 1913, September 16 Born in Jacksonville, Florida, son of Arthur and Rosebud Harrison Christopher. 1940, June Received A.B. degree, cum laude, from Howard University, College of Liberal...