Reminiscences of Clifford Judkins Durr, 1974

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family history and Southern tradition; legal practice; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Government Reorganization Act; Defense Plant corporation; development programs; Federal Communications Commission; Communication Act of 1934; House Committee on Un-American Activities; FBI loyalty programs; broadcast license renewal considerations; academic freedom issue; Montgomery civil rights practice; impressions of Jesse Jones, Hugo Black, Aubrey Williams, others in New Deal Washington

Subjects

• Broadcasting policy.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Practice of law.
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
• Sargent, James E., 1941- interviewer.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
• United States. Federal Communications Commission.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976