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Ernest Goodman files, 1986.
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Title:

Ernest Goodman files, 1986

Creator/Contributor:

Goodman, Ernest, 1906-1997, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Correspondence and chapter drafts concerning the trial of an Attica prisoner named "Shango".

Date:

1986 (issued)

Subject:

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Goodman, Ernest -- 1906-1997 -- Archives
Goodman, Ernest -- 1906-1997 -- Correspondence
National Lawyers Guild.
Attica Prison.
Prison riots -- New York (State)

Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Ernest Goodman files, BANC MSS 99/280 cz:Series 10, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Ernest Goodman (1906-March 26, 1997) was a Detroit lawyer specializing in First Amendment and civil rights cases who served as president of the National Lawyers Guild. He mobilized fellow lawyers against racial segregation in the Deep South and around the country and won an acquittal in 1975 in the main trial stemming from the uprising at the Attica penitentiary in upstate New York.
In English.
Contained in the finding aid of the National Lawyers Guild records (BANC MSS 99/280)
Forms part of the National Lawyers Guild records.

Physical Description:

print
0.4 (1

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Related Item:

National Lawyers Guild records : National Lawyers Guild.
National Lawyers Guild records (BANC MSS 99/280 cz)