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Found in 8 Collections and/or records:

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Emanuel Celler Papers

Identifier: MSS51755
Abstract

Lawyer and U.S. representative from New York. Correspondence, notes, clippings, memoranda, speeches, financial records, printed material, and other papers relating chiefly to Celler's service as representative in Congress from New York and as chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Dates 1924-1973; Majority of material found within 1945-1973
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Sam Jaffe Papers

Identifier: MSS84952
Abstract

Actor. Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating to Jaffe’s career as an actor and his personal life including his experience as a blacklisted actor in the 1950s.

Dates 1915-1991; Majority of material found within ( 1925-1984)
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Katharine Amend Kellock Papers

Identifier: MSS55301
Abstract

Economist and editor. Correspondence, project reports, writings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Kellock's work with the Federal Writers' Project, the Department of State, and the Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration.

Dates 1924-1969
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G. Bromley Oxnam Papers

Identifier: MSS35329
Abstract

Methodist clergyman and theologian. Diaries, correspondence, writings, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous material documenting Oxnam's life and work as a clergyman, stance on church-state issues, and controversies relating to Catholicism, anti-communism, and other issues of faith and politics.

Dates 1823-1963; Majority of material found within 1912-1960
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Herbert A. Philbrick Papers

Identifier: MSS84356
Abstract Anticommunist activist and counterspy. Correspondence, writings, speeches, television scripts, subject files, and other papers relating primarily to Philbrick's role as a leading anticommunist spokesman, his activities as an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation while he was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), and the television program based on his autobiography, I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,”...
Dates 1849-1997; Majority of material found within 1940-1993
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E. Barrett Prettyman Papers

Identifier: MSS48983
Abstract

Judge and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, writings, subject and case files, and other papers relating primarily to Prettyman's judicial career, including his work as corporation counsel of the District of Columbia, general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, private attorney, and professor of law at Georgetown University.

Dates 1901-1971; Majority of material found within 1945-1965
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Joseph L. Rauh Papers

Identifier: MSS62041
Abstract Lawyer, civil rights activist, and civil libertarian of Washington, D.C. Chiefly legal files together with correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, oral history interviews, speeches, writings, subject files, appointment books, and other papers relating to Rauh's career as a public interest lawyer handling cases pertaining to civil rights, civil liberties, and labor disputes. Includes files relating to his activities with Americans for Democratic Action and to his participation in...
Dates 1913-2008; Majority of material found within 1950-1984
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Jackie Robinson Papers

Identifier: MSS84832
Abstract Baseball player, civil rights leader, and corporate executive. Correspondence, fan mail, financial and legal records, drafts of speeches and writings, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items relating to Robinson as the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century and to various business and civic activities following his baseball career, including his service as a corporate executive and his participation in the civil rights movement,...
Dates 1934-2012; Majority of material found within 1947-1987