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Box 6

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

National Office for the Rights of the Indigent Ford Foundation grant proposal, 1969

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 3 contains materials covering Meltsner's career with the NAACP Legal Defense fund. The NAACP LDF materials consist of articles, book chapters, correspondence, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous ephemera and cover topics such as bail practices, medical care and hospital segregation, the death penalty, and representing Muhammad Ali. Some copies of correspondence materials in this subseries, including the Jack Greenberg correspondence, are located at the Library of Congress and...
Dates: 1969

Segregation, 1954-2024, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 3 contains materials covering Meltsner's career with the NAACP Legal Defense fund. The NAACP LDF materials consist of articles, book chapters, correspondence, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous ephemera and cover topics such as bail practices, medical care and hospital segregation, the death penalty, and representing Muhammad Ali. Some copies of correspondence materials in this subseries, including the Jack Greenberg correspondence, are located at the Library of Congress and...
Dates: 1954-2024, undated

Access to medical records, 2000-2021, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The subject files cover a variety of Meltsner's interests and work, mainly after his career with the NAACP LDF. Included are more modern topics such as clemency of life sentences and the release of Arnie King and George Stinney, patient access to medical records, and wrongful convictions with DNA evidence.

Dates: 2000-2021, undated

The Lawyering Process, 2003

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries 1 consists of materials pertaining to Meltsner's work with clinical legal education and his innovative work opening Columbia University's first poverty law clinic where law school students could gain experience representing clients. The materials include writings, articles written with Philip Schrag, NAACP Lawyer and advocate for clinical legal education, and an oral history transcript about the history of the beginnings of clinical legal education.

Dates: 2003

Correspondence and publicity, 1969-2015, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Identifier: Folder 14
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries 1 consists of materials pertaining to Meltsner's work with clinical legal education and his innovative work opening Columbia University's first poverty law clinic where law school students could gain experience representing clients. The materials include writings, articles written with Philip Schrag, NAACP Lawyer and advocate for clinical legal education, and an oral history transcript about the history of the beginnings of clinical legal education.

Dates: 1969-2015, undated

Consulting work with the Legal Resources Centre, 1977-2022, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Meltsner's work as a consultant with the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa is represented in this subseries. The Legal Resources Centre provides marginalized communities with resources in social justice and human rights law. The subseries contains articles and correspondence covering Meltsner's consulting work with the Legal Resources Centre and their advocating against apartheid.

Dates: 1977-2022, undated

Alan Dershowitz, 2021

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The subject files cover a variety of Meltsner's interests and work, mainly after his career with the NAACP LDF. Included are more modern topics such as clemency of life sentences and the release of Arnie King and George Stinney, patient access to medical records, and wrongful convictions with DNA evidence.

Dates: 2021

Benjamin Kaplan tribute, 1981, 2010

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The subject files cover a variety of Meltsner's interests and work, mainly after his career with the NAACP LDF. Included are more modern topics such as clemency of life sentences and the release of Arnie King and George Stinney, patient access to medical records, and wrongful convictions with DNA evidence.

Dates: 1981, 2010

Oral history project, 2007-2011

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
Scope and Contents

Includes transcript of Meltsner's interview. Recording located at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America.

Dates: 2007-2011

Clemency and life without parole prisoners, 2016-2020, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents

Meltsner did work to free life without parole prisoners Arnie King and George Stinney, Jr.

Dates: 2016-2020, undated