Juanita Kidd Stout papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35000
Subjects: Correspondence; Pennsylvania. Municipal Court (Philadelphia County); Welfare economics; Trials (Murder); Gangs; Courts; Pennsylvania; Juvenile delinquency; Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County); Pennsylvania. Supreme Court
Description: Correspondence, legal case files, speeches, articles, topical files, family papers, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Stout's career as a trial judge specializing in murder trials.  Documents her service on the Philadelphia County municipal court and court of common pleas and the Pennsylvania supreme court.  Other subjects include juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and welfare.  Includes papers of the Chandler, Kidd, and Stout families.  Correspondents include Raymond Pace Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Anne X. Alpern, Genevieve Blatt, Lawrence L. Boger, David Boren, Jean M. Capers, Mahala Dickerson, John W. Hamilton, William Hastie, Charles Hamilton Houston, Frederica Massiah-Jackson, Gail Nelson, Robert N. C. Nix, Henry Ponder, Leah Sears-Collins, Richard S. Schweiker, Charles Z. Smith, Arlen Specter, and Ronald A. White.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, estate of Juanita Kidd Stout, 2000.

Gift, Tyrone S. Drummond, 2000.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Jurist; first African American female appointed or elected judge of a court of record or general jurisdiction in the U.S.

Collection material in English.

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