Box 1
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Release form requests, 1978
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence series consists of personal correspondence both sent and received by Meltsner including queries about his books, thank you notes, reprint permissions and release forms, and other miscellaneous personal correspondence between Meltsner and his peers. Included in the personal correspondence are letters of regret sent and signed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, apologizing for not being able to attend an event hosted by Meltsner. The series also contains expansive correspondence...
Dates:
1978
Dan Givelber retirement speech, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series 4 consists of materials related to the numerous lectures, symposia, and talks that Meltsner has participated in throughout his career. The events cover a wide variety of highlights of Meltsner's legal career, educational career, and many other endeavors in the legal field. Topics of the events include the Hugo Adam Bedau memorial lectures on the death penalty, civil rights issues including southern school segregation, Muhammad Ali, issues in human injustice, open access to medical...
Dates:
undated
Ferguson, Missouri Teach-In, 2014 October 6
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: Folder 19
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series 4 consists of materials related to the numerous lectures, symposia, and talks that Meltsner has participated in throughout his career. The events cover a wide variety of highlights of Meltsner's legal career, educational career, and many other endeavors in the legal field. Topics of the events include the Hugo Adam Bedau memorial lectures on the death penalty, civil rights issues including southern school segregation, Muhammad Ali, issues in human injustice, open access to medical...
Dates:
2014 October 6
Festschrift Honoring Professor Michael Meltsner, Northeastern University School of Law (1 of 2), 2017 October 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: Folder 20
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series 4 consists of materials related to the numerous lectures, symposia, and talks that Meltsner has participated in throughout his career. The events cover a wide variety of highlights of Meltsner's legal career, educational career, and many other endeavors in the legal field. Topics of the events include the Hugo Adam Bedau memorial lectures on the death penalty, civil rights issues including southern school segregation, Muhammad Ali, issues in human injustice, open access to medical...
Dates:
2017 October 27
Festschrift Honoring Professor Michael Meltsner, Northeastern University School of Law (2 of 2), 2017 October 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: Folder 21
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series 4 consists of materials related to the numerous lectures, symposia, and talks that Meltsner has participated in throughout his career. The events cover a wide variety of highlights of Meltsner's legal career, educational career, and many other endeavors in the legal field. Topics of the events include the Hugo Adam Bedau memorial lectures on the death penalty, civil rights issues including southern school segregation, Muhammad Ali, issues in human injustice, open access to medical...
Dates:
2017 October 27
Fifty Years After Furman, 2023
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: Folder 22
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series 4 consists of materials related to the numerous lectures, symposia, and talks that Meltsner has participated in throughout his career. The events cover a wide variety of highlights of Meltsner's legal career, educational career, and many other endeavors in the legal field. Topics of the events include the Hugo Adam Bedau memorial lectures on the death penalty, civil rights issues including southern school segregation, Muhammad Ali, issues in human injustice, open access to medical...
Dates:
2023
Furman v. Georgia speech, 1994 April 7
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: Folder 23
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series 4 consists of materials related to the numerous lectures, symposia, and talks that Meltsner has participated in throughout his career. The events cover a wide variety of highlights of Meltsner's legal career, educational career, and many other endeavors in the legal field. Topics of the events include the Hugo Adam Bedau memorial lectures on the death penalty, civil rights issues including southern school segregation, Muhammad Ali, issues in human injustice, open access to medical...
Dates:
1994 April 7
Awards and honors, ca. 1977-2014, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents
Includes a thank you note from the Black Panther Party for assisting with their trials in the 1970s.
Dates:
ca. 1977-2014, undated
Nominations for the American Bar Association Thurgood Marshall Award, 2018
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains multiple awards and honors that Meltsner has been nominated for and received throughout his career as a civil rights lawyer and his work arguing against capital punishment to recognize it as cruel and unusual punishment. Included in this series is the Hugo Adam Bedau Award from the Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty, a thank you letter from the Black Panther Party for assisting with their trials in the 1970s, and the honorary doctorate that Meltsner...
Dates:
2018
FBI Report of Meltsner's supposed involvement with the Black Panther Party (photocopy), 1970
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents
Contains redacted information and Meltsner's name is written incorrectly.
Dates:
1970