Reminiscences of William H. Goodman : oral history, 2002.

Biographical Note

Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Education: University of Chicago Law School (1964); career: private practice in Detroit, MI, directorship of Center for Constitutional Rights in 1998; September 11th: working in office at Broadway and Houston, immediate recognition of terrorism and implications for civil rights; post-9/11: reaching out to Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, educating about their rights and finding lawyers to represent people from those communities, realization of others' fears, discussion of detention centers, conditions for detainees, beliefs on racial profiling, lawsuits, fear for Constitution, fear for president's opponents, media neglect of detainees, belief that war will worsen situation.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.)--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• Goodman, William H.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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