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BANC MSS C-B 467
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Collection Title: Austin Lewis Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1944
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 467
Creator:
Lewis, Austin, 1865?-1944
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box, 4 cartons
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Relating primarily to his interest in civil liberties, to various causes including efforts to free Tom Mooney and Warren Billings
and to repeal California's criminal syndicalism law, and to his legal career. Include correspondence, MSS of his writings
and lectures, legal files and clippings.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Austin Lewis Papers, BANC MSS C-B 467, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Austin Lewis was a lecturer, writer and attorney with law offices in San Francisco and Oakland. He devoted his career to so-called
radical causes, such as the pardon of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings and the repeal of California's criminal syndicalism
law, and to defense of civil liberties in general, usually involving persons with little or no money. He helped organize the
Northern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and served as its counsel and on the Advisory Committee.
The papers relate mainly to his career. The bulk of them were given to The Bancroft Library in 1952 by Saxon A. Lewis and
Mrs. Ralph H. Sliter. Some additional correspondence came from Mrs. Mary H. Hutchinson in 1965.
A key to arrangement follows.