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Civil rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on citizens' rights as established by law and protected by constitution. Works on the rights of persons regardless of their legal, socioeconomic or cultural status and as recognized by the international community are entered under Human rights.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-310
Scope and Contents The papers of Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious relate primarily to the latter portion of her career. The papers include correspondence, handwritten notes, speeches and addresses, news clippings, and photographs and other non-textual material; the bulk of the historical material dates from the late 1970s to her death in 1997. There is very little material related to her days as a student at Oberlin College (1939-43), and there is no material from her childhood or her studies at the University of...
Dates: 1875-1997; Majority of material found in 1965-1997; Other: Date acquired: 1997 October 28

Michael Meltsner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-428
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the papers of Michael Meltsner and covers his career as an author, a civil rights lawyer, and law school professor. It is organized into eleven records series.

Dates: 1949-2024, undated; Majority of material found in 1961-2024, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2014 May 29

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Oberlin Unit 3196, Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 31-033
Scope and Contents

The records of the Oberlin Unit of the NAACP cover the period from ca. 1919 to 1976, and from 1990 to 2014. They comprise certificates of achievement, correspondence, Freedom Fund Banquet programs, membership campaign materials, reports, general NAACP information, and complaint case files. The latter are restricted.

Dates: ca. 1919-2018, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2001 June 1