Oral history interview with Herbert Brownell, 1968

Biographical Note

Lawyer, politician

Scope and Contents

1952 pre-convention and election campaigns; Republican Party; selection of the Cabinet; other appointments; Justice Department and Attorney General's Office; immigration; integration; Emmett Till case; Brown case; Tidelands case; Bricker amendment; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Joseph R. McCarthy; Adam Clayton Powell; Civil Rights Act of 1957; Little Rock crisis; presidential incapacity legislation; national security; labor racketeering prosecution; anti-trust law enforcement; impressions of Dwight Eisenhower

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• Brownell, Herbert, 1904-1996--Interviews.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Law--United States.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works).
• Politicians--Interviews.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1952.
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States--Race relations.

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