Hugo LaFayette Black papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Public service employment; Public utilities; Segregation in education; Civil rights; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); New Deal, 1933-1939; United States. Supreme Court; School integration; United States; Constitutional amendments; Constitutional law; Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949; Economic policy; Law; Tariff; United States. Congress. Senate; Tennessee Valley Authority; Religion in the public schools
Description: Family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, notebooks, research materials, case files, legal and subject files, speeches and writings, printed and near-print materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany  relating primarily to Black's service in the U.S. Senate (1927-1937) and on the Supreme Court (1937-1971).  Topics include the New Deal, Nuremberg war crimes trials, politics in Alabama and elsewhere in the South, Tennessee Valley Authority and public utility regulation, public service employment, tariffs, Ku Klux Klan, public school racial integration, school prayer, and First Amendment freedoms (civil rights).

Correspondents include Charles Austin Beard, Hollis Black, Josephine Foster Black, Harold H. Burton, Edmond Nathaniel Cahn, G. Harrold Carswell, Marquis William Childs, Jerome A. Cooper, David Jackson Davis, Irving Dilliard, Joseph Dorfman, Paul Howard Douglas, William O. Douglas, Clifford J. Durr, Virginia Foster Durr, John Paul Frank, Felix Frankfurter, Hugh Gladney Grant, Erwin N. Griswold, Clement F. Haynsworth, Lister Hill, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Peter Bryant Jarman, Nicholas Johnson, Arthur John Keeffe, Frida Laski, Harold Joseph Laski, Leonard Williams Levy, Charles Allan Madison. Louis F. Oberdorfer, Charles Alan Reich, Fred Rodell, Carl Sandburg, S. Sidney Ulmer, Earl Warren, Walter Francis White, Aubrey Willis Williams, and J. Skelly Wright.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Gift, Elizabeth DeMeritte Black and others, 1972-1998.

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

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. senator from Alabama, and lawyer.

Collection material in English.

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