Reminiscences of Thomas Irwin Emerson : oral history, 1955.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

1953 loyalty cases; Smith Act cases; Owen Lattimore case; research of segregation cases; New Haven branch of American Civil Liberties Union; civil liberties in England, 1955.

Subjects

• African Americans--Segregation.
• American Civil Liberties Union.
• Civil rights--Great Britain.
• Emerson, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1907-1991.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Practice of law.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.