Box J.27

Scope and Contents

Note on original folders read "cold cut of Confederate petit Jury here" (postmarked 8/2/74) and "clip to Mrs. Oliver 2/9/74"

Scope and Contents Jury service files are primarily a geographically arranged clipping file with coverage of jury discrimination cases and of African American people serving on juries Files include reporting on many successful conviction appeals due to jury discrimination. Jury Service - Maryland files also includes correspondence from a survey of Maryland county clerks made by Carl J. Murphy in 1932 following the Euel Lee case, a letter from a juror describing his experience serving on a jury in Prince...