William L. Taylor papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4000
Subjects: United States; Judges; Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Officials and employees; Civil rights; Affirmative action programs in education; United States. Supreme Court; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Minorities; School integration; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary; Discrimination in education; Discrimination in employment; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Selection and appointment; African Americans; Societies
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, reports, speeches, writings, testimony, transcripts of interviews, and other material related primarily to civil rights legislation and efforts to defeat the nominations of Robert H. Bork and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Subjects include the Civil Rights Acts of 1990 and 1991, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, interviews of Taylor conducted by Michael Pertschuk and Wendy Schaetzel (Lesko), affirmative action, civil rights, civil rights organizations, civil rights protections in education and employment, and school desegregation.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Gift, William L. Taylor, 1996.

Civil rights lawyer and educator.

Collection material in English.

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

Material from the records of the Center for National Policy Review which came to the Library in 1993 was later transferred to these papers.