Lawyers Who Went South oral history collection, 1992-1993

Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of interviews taken by Thomas Hilbink as part of his undergraduate thesis. Hilbink attended Columbia College from 1989-1993. The interviews document the experiences of lawyers who participated in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with a particular focus on the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee. Narrators address civil rights, civil liberties, activism, and the theoretical and practical aspects of pursuing social change in the legal system The collection's narrators are: Steven Antler, Henry M. Aroson, Elsbeth Levy Bothe, Al Brostein, Paul Chevigny, Leslie Dunbar, John L. Edmonds, Lolis E. Elie, Richard P. Frank, Jack Greenberg, Jeremiah Gutman, Arthur Kinoy, William M. Kunstler, Alan Lerner, Alan Levine, J. Robert Lunney, Peter Marcuse, Burke Marshall, Jack Pemberton, John Pratt, Carl Rachlin, Henry Schwarzschild, Faith Seidenberg, Richard B. Sobol, Pierre Tonachel, Larry Weisman, and Mel Wulf

Subjects

• American Civil Liberties Union.
• Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
• Civil rights workers--United States--History--20th century.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Lawyers--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.)
• National Lawyers Guild.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Access Conditions

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold a non-exclusive license to enable library activities