Oral history interview with Walter Gellhorn, 1977
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- Name
- Gellhorn, Walter, 1906-1995 (Interviewee)
- Gellhorn, Kitty (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Walter Gellhorn, 1977
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Walter Gellhorn, 1977
- Abstract
- Angelo Herndon case; postwar years at Columbia Law School: impressions of deans, faculty members, Columbia presidents; American Civil Liberties Union activities, 1940s-1950s; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund activities, from 1940s; McCarthy investigations; 1951 British National Health Service study; 1952 study of families and children in courts; 1957 stu dy on revision of New York State Constitution; visiting professorships: Tokyo, Harvard and others; legal educational standards work for Association of American Law Schools, presidency, 1963; research on citizen grievance-handling mechanisms, especially ombudsmanship; 1969 study on eligibility of church-related institutions for state funds; 1968 Columbia student demonstrations; women and Black people in legal education and profession; contract and grievance arbitration since 1936; establishment of National Legal Services Corporation; activities as trustee of Amherst College, 1960-1972
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Educators; Lawyers; Internal security--United States; Law--Study and teaching; Legal aid; Arbitration, Industrial; New York (State) Politics and government 1951-; Gellhorn, Walter, 1906-; Columbian University. Law School; Columbia University Strike; American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer, educator, mediator
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Kitty Gellhorn
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 6880191
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/126m-3259
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.