Guide to the Siegfried Hesse archive M2987
Gurudarshan Khalsa
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2024
Green Library
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Stanford 94305-6064
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Siegfried Hesse archive
Creator:
Hesse, Siegfried
source:
Bolerium Books
Identifier/Call Number: M2987
Physical Description:
1.4 Linear Feet
(4 manuscript boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1941-1976
Language of Material:
English
.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials documenting the early career of Siegfried Hesse. The materials consist of correspondence,
legal briefs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, schoolwork, notebooks, manuscript drafts, pamphlets, and other materials.
The majority of the materials deal primarily with Hesse's work with immigration cases and veterans' civil liberties. The notebooks
include short observations from life, quotes from books, general philosophical thoughts, and notes and ideas for short stories.
Biographical / Historical
Siegfried Hesse was a radical lawyer from California. He attended the University of Southern California and graduated with
a Bachelor of Arts in 1946. Hesse then graduated from the University of California School of Law in 1950 and moved to Seattle
focusing primarily on immigration cases and veterans' civil liberties. The immigration cases often related to the Smith and
Walter-McCarran Acts. Hesse also worked extensively with the the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the
National Lawyers Guild where he was the chairman of the Constitutional Liberties Committee. In the late 1950s, Hesse moved
back to California and took a job as a legal editor at a publishing company, Bancroft Whitney. After a few years, Hesse started
working at UC Berkeley's Center for Continuing Education of the Bar. He was working for the University at the time of the
Free Speech Movement and became one of the lawyers for the Sproul Hall arrestees.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Siegfried Hesse archive (M2987). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
Libraries, Stanford, California.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital
materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization
to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction
beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Emigration and immigration law -- United States
Civil rights -- United States
Veterans
Bolerium Books
National Lawyers Guild
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Box 1, folder 1
Hazel Anna Wolf (1 of 2)
1960-1961
Box 1, folder 2
Hazel Anna Wolf (2 of 2)
1960-1961
Box 1, folder 3
Willia Niukkanen
1959-1960
Box 1, folder 4
Gus Polites - correspondence
1962-1963
Box 1, folder 6
Sherman v. Immigration and Naturalization Service - correspondence
1965-1970
Box 1, folder 10
National Lawyers Guild: Committee on Citizenship and Immigration
1960-1961
Box 1, folder 11
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
1955-1963
Box 2, folder 1
Foreign born - newspaper clippings (1 of 2)
1958
Box 2, folder 2
Foreign born - newspaper clippings (2 of 2)
1958
Box 2, folder 3
The right to bail in political cases
1951
Box 2, folder 4
Allan Brotsky v. California State Bar
1961
Box 2, folder 7
Farm labor: State of California Department of Employment - Mexican nationals in California agriculture
1959
Box 2, folder 8
John Rogers v. Alaska Steamship Company
1960-1961
Box 2, folder 9
Eleanor Louise Lyman
1962-1963
Box 3, folder 1
Discharge cases
1954-1955
Box 3, folder 2
Veterans' civil liberties
1954-1958
Box 3, folder 3
Robert M. Peck, m.d. - Doctors draft act
1952-1954
Box 3, folder 5
National Lawyers Guild - petition to contest seating of Mississippi Congressional delegation
1964
Box 3, folder 6
Costello v. United States of America
1976
Box 3, folder 7
Law publishing prospectus prepared by Siegfried Hesse for McGraw-Hill Book Company
1965
Box 3, folder 8
Law publishing prospectus prepared by Siegfried Hesse for McGraw-Hill Book Company
1965
Box 3, folder 9
Correspondence regarding law publishing prospectus
1965-1973
Box 3, folder 10
Maloney becomes foreman draft
1955-1956
Box 4, folder 2
Frick Junior High School
1941
Box 4, folder 3
Personality and the social order - California Labor School
1947
Box 4, folder 4
College coursework
1946-1950
Box 4, folder 5
Fragments for future biographers
Box 4, folder 6
Notebook - The adventures of Dr. Froustus, Dr. Johnson, and Mr. B.
Box 4, folder 7
Notebook with legal notes and newspaper clipping
