Reminiscences of Samuel Gruber : oral history, 1982.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, civil rights activist.

Scope and Contents

Growing up in Stamford, CT; parents' personalities, extended family; Jewish theater and music in New York, N.Y., 1920s; Columbia Law School, J.D., 1932; organizing the fight against fascism; union organizing; civil rights lawyer during McCarthy era; plans for writing.

Subjects

• Civil rights--United States.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Gruber, Samuel, 1906-1982.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Practice of law.
• Riley, Kate, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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