Reminiscences of James Madison Nabrit III, 1979
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- Name
- Nabrit, James Madison (Interviewee)
- Gellhorn, Kitty (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of James Madison Nabrit III, 1979
- Abstract
- Family background; Bates College, 1952, Yale Law School, 1955; spectator, Brown vs. Board of Education arguments; Army cryptographer, Paris, 1957-58; Legal Defense Fund 1959- ; Virginia desegregation cases, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957, sit-in strategy, equal employment cases, Boston desegregation, 1976, Selma voting rights, 1964, Evans vs. Newton, Birmingham march, busing cases
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Lawyers; African American lawyers; Cryptography; Practice of law; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Segregation; African Americans--Civil rights; United States Race relations; Nabrit, James Madison; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1979
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer
- Note
- Interviewed by Kitty Gellhorn
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15310868
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-24xk-kg49
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.