Reminiscences of Walter Gellhorn, 1977.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, educator, mediator

Scope and Contents

Angelo Herndon case; postwar years at Columbia Law School: impressions of deans, faculty members, Columbia presidents; American Civil Liberties Union activities, 1940s-1950s; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund activities, from 1940s; McCarthy investigations; 1951 British National Health Service study; 1952 study of families and children in courts; 1957 study on revision of New York State Constitution; visiting professorships: Tokyo, Harvard and others; legal educational standards work for Association of American Law Schools, presidency, 1963; research on citizen grievance-handling mechanisms, especially ombudsmanship; 1969 study on eligibility of church-related institutions for state funds; 1968 Columbia student demonstrations; women and Black people in legal education and profession; contract and grievance arbitration since 1936; establishment of National Legal Services Corporation; activities as trustee of Amherst College, 1960-1972

Subjects

• American Civil Liberties Union.
• Arbitration, Industrial.
• Columbia University--Strike.
• Columbian University. Law School.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Gellhorn, Walter, 1906-1995--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Law--Study and teaching.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Legal aid.
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories (literary works)