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    <title>Ruth Bader Ginsburg papers, 1897-2005 (bulk 1970-1997)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ginsburg, Ruth Bader.</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>55,250</extent>
    <extent>150 7</extent>
    <extent>61.6</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, interviews, briefs, orders, opinions, motions, depositions, and other papers relating chiefly to Ginsburg's efforts as an advocate for women's rights, particularly through her speeches and writings and her endeavors as general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and director of its Women's Rights Project.  Documents her work as proponent for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, as law professor at Columbia University, and as judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Also includes Ginsburg (Ginsberg) family papers and material relating to Ginsburg's travels including a trip to China.</abstract>
  <abstract>Includes cases involving discrimination against women such as the first successful gender-based law suit, Reed v. Reed; Frontiero v. Richardson, regarding fringe benefits for married servicewomen; Califano v. Goldfarb, relating to the rights of widowers to claim social security survivor benefits; Healy v. Edwards, pertaining to jury duty for women in Louisiana; and Seldin v. State Board of Education of New Jersey, concerning discrimination in sports.</abstract>
  <note>Restrictions apply.</note>
  <note>Jurist.  Born 1933.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Califano, Joseph A</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1931-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edwards, Edwin W</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Frontiero, Sharron</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Goldfarb, Leon</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Healy, Marsha B</namePart>
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    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reed, Cecil</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reed, Sally</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Richardson, Elliot L</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1920-1999</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seldin, Abbe</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ginsberg family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>New Jersey.</namePart>
      <namePart>State Board of Education</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Civil Liberties Union.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Civil Liberties Union.</namePart>
      <namePart>Women's Rights Project.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Columbia University</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Faculty</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Equal rights amendments</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Employee fringe benefits</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Jury duty</topic>
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <topic>Study and teaching</topic>
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    <topic>Sex discrimination against women</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sex discrimination in sports</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Social security beneficiaries</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Legal status, laws, etc</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women's rights</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Armed Forces</topic>
    <topic>Women</topic>
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Restrictions apply.</accessCondition>
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