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Armand Derfner legal papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1049
Abstract
Armand Derfner, b. 1938, has been a litigator in private practice in Charleston, SC, since 1974. He has litigated civil rights cases since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 went into effect in August 1968, when Derfner represented voters in Greenwood, Mississippi. He has gained national renown as a civil rights attorney, having won five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Armand Derfner legal papers document his work since establishing his practice in Charleston in 1974. The papers are...
Dates:
1973-1995
Steve Estes papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1055
Abstract
The collection consists of primary and secondary sources used by Steve Estes to write his master’s thesis drawing comparison from the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike of 1968 and Charleston Hospital workers’ strike of 1969. Estes interviewed people who were closely associated with these movements and also consists of an analysis of newspaper clippings that capture these movements.
Dates:
1967-1996
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- Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 1
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- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Poor People’s Campaign 1
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 1
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- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina 1
- Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 1
- Cottonreader, R. B. 1
- Derfner, Armand 1
- Estes, Steve, 1972- 1
- Fink, Leon, 1948- 1
- Frazier, Herb, 1950- 1
- International Longshoremen's Association. Local 1422 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Jefferson, Jessie 1
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
- Medical University of South Carolina 1
- Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 1
- Retail Drug Store Employees Union, Local 1199B (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Saunders, William, 1935- 1
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
- United States (Title of work: Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976) 1
- United States (Title of work: Voting Rights Act of 1965) 1
- White, Naomi, 1925- 1
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