Hugo LaFayette Black papers, 1883-1976 (bulk 1926-1971).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 130,000 items; 513 containers plus 19 oversize plus 1 vault container; 216 linear feetSubject(s): - Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 -- Correspondence
- Black, Hollis -- Correspondence
- Black, Josephine Foster, 1899-1951 -- Correspondence
- Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964 -- Correspondence
- Cahn, Edmond Nathaniel, 1906-1964 -- Correspondence
- Carswell, G. Harrold (George Harrold), 1919-1992 -- Correspondence
- Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990 -- Correspondence
- Cooper, Jerome A. -- Correspondence
- Davis, David Jackson, 1878-1938 -- Correspondence
- Dilliard, Irving, 1904-2002 -- Correspondence
- Dorfman, Joseph, 1904-1991 -- Correspondence
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 -- Correspondence
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980 -- Correspondence
- Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975 -- Correspondence
- Durr, Virginia Foster -- Correspondence
- Frank, John P. (John Paul), 1917-2002 -- Correspondence
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence
- Grant, Hugh Gladney, 1888-1972 -- Correspondence
- Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel), 1904-1994 -- Correspondence
- Haynsworth, Clement F. (Clement Furman), 1912-1989 -- Correspondence
- Hill, Lister, 1894-1984 -- Correspondence
- Jackson, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954 -- Correspondence
- Jarman, Peterson Bryant, 1892-1955 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Nicholas, 1934- -- Correspondence
- Keeffe, Arthur John -- Correspondence
- Laski, Frida -- Correspondence
- Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950 -- Correspondence
- Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006 -- Correspondence
- Madison, Charles Allan -- Correspondence
- Oberdorfer, Louis F. (Louis Falk), 1919- -- Correspondence
- Reich, Charles A. -- Correspondence
- Rodell, Fred, 1907-1980 -- Correspondence
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 -- Correspondence
- Ulmer, S. Sidney -- Correspondence
- Warren, Earl, 1891-1974 -- Correspondence
- White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 -- Correspondence
- Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965 -- Correspondence
- Wright, J. Skelly -- Correspondence
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Constitution
- United States. Supreme Court
- Civil rights -- United States
- Constitutional amendments -- United States
- Constitutional law -- United States
- Law -- United States
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
- Public service employment -- United States
- Public utilities -- United States
- Religion in the public schools
- Segregation in education
- School integration
- Tariff -- United States
- Alabama -- Politics and government
- Southern States -- Politics and government
- United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Jurists
- Lawyers
- Senators, U.S. Congress -- Alabama
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Family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, notebooks, research materials, case files, legal and subject files, speeches and writings, printed and near-print materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating primarily to Black's service in the U.S. Senate (1927-1937) and on the Supreme Court (1937-1971). Topics include the New Deal, Nuremberg war crimes trials, politics in Alabama and elsewhere in the South, Tennessee Valley Authority and public utility regulation, public service employment, tariffs, Ku Klux Klan, public school racial integration, school prayer, and First Amendment freedoms (civil rights).
Correspondents include Charles Austin Beard, Hollis Black, Josephine Foster Black, Harold H. Burton, Edmond Nathaniel Cahn, G. Harrold Carswell, Marquis William Childs, Jerome A. Cooper, David Jackson Davis, Irving Dilliard, Joseph Dorfman, Paul Howard Douglas, William O. Douglas, Clifford J. Durr, Virginia Foster Durr, John Paul Frank, Felix Frankfurter, Hugh Gladney Grant, Erwin N. Griswold, Clement F. Haynsworth, Lister Hill, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Peter Bryant Jarman, Nicholas Johnson, Arthur John Keeffe, Frida Laski, Harold Joseph Laski, Leonard Williams Levy, Charles Allan Madison. Louis F. Oberdorfer, Charles Alan Reich, Fred Rodell, Carl Sandburg, S. Sidney Ulmer, Earl Warren, Walter Francis White, Aubrey Willis Williams, and J. Skelly Wright.
Dictaphone recordings, phonodiscs, magnetic tapes, and motion pictures transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. senator from Alabama, and lawyer.
Collection material in English.
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