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Box LGL.04

 Container

Contains 36 Results:

Robeson, Paul, circa 1919-1990s

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

The Paul Robeson files contain mainly photographs and clippings documenting Robeson's career, including performances, international travel, and family life. Legal documents, newspapers, publications, some of the clippings, and Peekskill riots material contain reporting and gathered source material dealing with Robeson's politics and reactions to his leftist affiliations.

Dates: circa 1919-1990s

Robeson, Paul - Correspondence and Notes, circa 1930s-1950

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Contains typed biographical notes on Robeson and letters to editorial giving updates on reporting, primarily on Robeson's personal life. One letter is signed "Noah Thompson" and is addressed to "Uncle Carl."

Dates: circa 1930s-1950

Robeson, Paul - Legal Documents, 1950s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes lawsuit against Robeson by the U.S. State Department circa 1950, and Amicus brief filed in support of Robeson's appeal, circa 1955.

Dates: 1950s

Robinson, Eric Stanley

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes clipping with headline that reads "Youth jailed 287 days by mistake goes free"

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1920s-1960s

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Writings About Roosevelt, 1930s, 1948

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes a manuscript called "A New Deal" by William J. Thompkins, press releases and typescript articles with reporting and research on Roosevelt, and an eyewitness testimony by Mrs. Van Lear Black of an incident involving Roosevelt.

Dates: 1930s; 1948

Rhetta, Barnette Milton, Jr. (Dr. and Mrs.)

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Coverage of the indictments of Dr. Barnette Milton Rhetta Jr. for performing abortion services in Baltimore.