Title:
Aubrey Grossman files, 1953-1973
Creator/Contributor:
Grossman, Aubrey, 1911-1999, creator, creator.
Creator/Contributor:
Wells, Wesley Robert, correspondent.
Abstract:
Selective service prosecution statistics, including the Robert Whitehorn case files. Statistics on civil disobedience arrests
and dispositions as well as clippings concerning the sit-ins and mass arrests of Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrators
in the Broadway Auto Row, Oakland case. Appeals, court records and attorney-client correspondence in the Wesley Robert Wells
case.
Date:
1953 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Civil disobedience
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil Disorders
Désobéissance civile
Manifestations pour les droits de l'homme
Civil disobedience
Civil rights demonstrations
Grossman, Aubrey -- 1911-1999 -- Archives
Wells, Wesley Robert -- Correspondence
Wells, Wesley Robert
Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Contained in the finding aid of the National Lawyers Guild records.
Forms part of the National Lawyers Guild records (BANC MSS 99/280)
Aubrey W. Grossman (1911-1999) was a widely known civil rights attorney and member of the Communist Party USA. He is best
known for his defense of Willie McGee, a black man put to death for an alleged rape, and for his defense of the Native Americans
who occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969-71. Born in California on 29 March 1911, he was the son of David Grossman and his wife
Emma (née Silverstein) Grossman.
Aubrey Grossman files, BANC MSS 99/280 cz:Series 11, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
judicial records.
Archives.
Personal correspondence.
Physical Description:
print
2.5 (2
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.