| Title: |
A. Leon Higginbotham
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| Local code: |
84-47
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
National Archives and Records Administration. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
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| Collection: |
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 1962-1964; Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Pennsylvania, 1964-1977; Vice Chairman, National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, 1968-1969; Judge, U.S. District Court, Virgin Islands, 1969; Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 1977-1993.
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| Extent: |
24 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/HIGGINBO/higginbo.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1976 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Higginbotham, A. Leon, 1928-1998
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1928
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Commissioner; Judge
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| Age at speaking: |
48
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| Document location: |
Philadelphia, PA
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| Document date: |
07-Oct-1976
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| Interviewer: |
Frantz, Joe B., 1917-1993
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| People discussed: |
Johnson, Lyndon B.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973; LBJ; Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| Historical events discussed: |
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; Pennsylvania; U.S. Virgin Islands; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African American judges; Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968; Civil rights; Civil rights movements--United States; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminal justice, Administration of--United States; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973; Judges; Justice; Law--United States; LBJ; Lyndon Baines Johnson; North America; Oral history; Pennsylvania; Race relations; Riots; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-; U.S. Virgin Islands; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029917-33130
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