David Ginsburg papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: United States. Emergency Board No. 166; Austrian Treaty Commission; United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders; Airlines; Elections; Riots; World War, 1939-1945; Economic policy; Claims; History; Politics and government; Practice of law; Race relations; Council of Foreign Ministers; Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft; Labor disputes; Presidents; Civil rights; Railroads; Studiengesellschaft für privatrechtliche Auslandinteresse, e. V.; United States. Emergency Board No. 169; United States; Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government. Economics Division; Election; Citizens for Humphrey; African Americans; Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, writings, reports, research material, legal material, legislative files, political campaign material, biographical material, press releases, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Ginsburg's legal career, involvement with civil rights, and the recovery of German assets after World War II.  Documents his service as deputy director of the Economics Division of the Office of Military Government with the U.S. Army in occupied Germany; his consultation work with the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Austrian Treaty Commission; and his representation of Studiengesellschaft für privatrechtliche Auslandinteresse, e. V., and of the trustees of Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft (I.G. Farben).  Also documents his service with the U.S. Emergency Board No. 166, U.S. Emergency Board No. 166, and the U.S. National Advisory Council on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission).  Includes material pertaining to his involvement with the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon presidential administrations, his work as co-chairman of Citizens for Humphrey in 1968, and his practice as an attorney in Washington, D.C.  Subjects include the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, labor disputes involving airlines and railroads, and the race riots of 1967.  Individuals represented include Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Henry Kissinger, and Harold Leventhal.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Microfilm edition of Interhandle Case, reel 1; microfilm edition only of Wagnerknecht Case, reel 2, no. 23,126.

Microfilm produced from originals while in private hands. [S.l.].

Gift, David Ginsburg, 2006-2007.

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

Lawyer, author, and educator.

Collection material in English, with German.

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