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Aubrey Grossman files, 1953-1973.
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Aubrey Grossman files, 1953-1973Creator/Contributor:
Grossman, Aubrey, 1911-1999, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Wells, Wesley Robert, correspondent.Abstract:
Selective service prosecution statistics, including the Robert Whitehorn case files. Statistics on civil disobedience arrests
and dispositions as well as clippings concerning the sit-ins and mass arrests of Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrators
in the Broadway Auto Row, Oakland case. Appeals, court records and attorney-client correspondence in the Wesley Robert Wells
case.
Date:
1953 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCivil disobedience
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil Disorders
Désobéissance civile
Manifestations pour les droits de l'homme
Civil disobedience
Civil rights demonstrations
Grossman, Aubrey -- 1911-1999 -- Archives
Wells, Wesley Robert -- Correspondence
Wells, Wesley Robert
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Contained in the finding aid of the National Lawyers Guild records.
Forms part of the National Lawyers Guild records (BANC MSS 99/280)
Aubrey W. Grossman (1911-1999) was a widely known civil rights attorney and member of the Communist Party USA. He is best
known for his defense of Willie McGee, a black man put to death for an alleged rape, and for his defense of the Native Americans
who occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969-71. Born in California on 29 March 1911, he was the son of David Grossman and his wife
Emma (née Silverstein) Grossman.
Aubrey Grossman files, BANC MSS 99/280 cz:Series 11, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
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judicial records.Archives.
Personal correspondence.
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print
2.5 (2
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.