John Paul Frank papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Correspondence; Segregation in higher education; Judges; United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary; Biography; Faculty; United States; Yale Law School; Appellate courts; United States. Supreme Court
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, a legislative bill, notes, photographs, speeches, and writings chiefly documenting Frank's relationship as a law clerk and friend of Supreme Court justice Hugo LaFayette Black which led to Frank's book Inside Hugo L. Black: The Letters (2000).  Includes material pertaining to attempts to desegregate American law schools and to creation of an intermediate court of appeals to assist in reducing the work of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Correspondents include Elizabeth Black and William H. Rehnquist.
Notes: Open to research.

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Gift, John Paul Frank, 1998-2000.

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

Author, lawyer, and educator.  Died 2002.

Collection material in English.

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