Simon Ernest Sobeloff papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Race relations; United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit); Jews; American Bar Association; Segregation in education; National Council on Crime and Delinquency; American Jewish Congress; United States. Solicitor General; School integration; United States. Subversive Activities Control Board; Courts; Cases; Law; United States; Baltimore Urban League (Md.); Societies
Description: Correspondence, appointment books, solicitor general files, case and office files of the U.S. Court of Appeals, speeches and writings, subject file, and miscellany relating to Sobeloff's involvement in Baltimore and Maryland law and politics, his duties as solicitor general (1954-1955), especially actions concerning school desegregation and the Subversive Activities Control Board, cases heard before the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (1956-1973), his associations with the American Bar Association, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Baltimore Urban League, and various Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Congress.  Includes three reels of microfilm reproducing 14 volumes of scrapbooks (1914-1972).

Correspondents include David  L. Bazelon, Warren E. Burger, William O. Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Felix Frankfurter, Clement F. Haynsworth, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacob K. Javits, Robert F. Kennedy, Harold Leventhal, Theodore R. McKeldin, H. L. Mencken, John Johnston Parker, John Paul, Morris Ames Soper, R. Dorsey Watkins, and J. Skelly Wright.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available; no. 18,939.

Microfilm of scrapbooks produced from originals in private hands. [S.l.]. 1984.

Private

Gift, estate of Simon E. Sobeloff, via Eugene Feinblatt, Gordon, Feinblatt, Loffberger & Hollander, Baltimore, Md., 1973.

Gift, Ruth Mayer and Evva Vale, 1980.

Lawyer, U.S. solicitor general, and federal judge.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.