Reminiscences of Elliot Mincberg : oral history, 2002-2003.

Biographical Note

Legal Director, People for the American Way.

Scope and Contents

Background: born Chicago; parents Holocaust survivors; changing dynamics of Chicago neighborhood through integration and white flight, influence of assassinations of civil rights leaders; education: B.A. Northwestern University, J.D. Harvard Law School 1977; activism: environmental activism through internship at Campaign Against Pollution, Vietnam War protest organizing; career: clerk and community services work for Hogan and Hartson, Legal Director for People for the American Way; post-9/11: challenges and changes in legal work, public reaction to People for the American Way's work; evaluation of Attorney General John Ashcroft, thoughts on Jose Padilla case; reflections on family life.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mincberg, Elliot, 1952---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• People for the American Way--Employees--Interviews.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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