Reminiscences of Wiley A. Branton [electronic resource] : oral history, 1970

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Director, Voter Education Project, 1962; Civil Rights Act, 1964 and Voting Rights Act, 1965; discussion of voting restrictions in the South, organizations including National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Little Rock integration crisis, 1958-59

Subjects

• Branton, Wiley Austin, 1923-1988--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawson, Steven F., 1945-, interviewer.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Race discrimination--Law and legislation.
• School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.