Please view these sources about noted BLS alumni in BLS Library's first floor display:
A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic
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Please also see Oral History Interview with David Norman Dinkins, 2014 in the Oral History Archives, Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University ("Interviewed by Megan French-Marcelin on July 9, July 25, July 30, and August 12, 2014"). On p. 12 and p. 26 of the interview transcript, Mayor Dinkins discussed why he chose to attend Brooklyn Law School.
Remembering Florence Victoria Lucas, Civil Rights Pioneer: An Authorized Biography
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BLS Library also provides a print copy in the circulating Main Collection.
BLS Library also provides a print copy in the circulating Main Collection.
Presidential memoir.
BLS Library also provides a print copy in the circulating Main Collection.
See: Chapter 10. Percy Sutton, Media, and Harlem. Author H. Carl McCall (with assistance from Paul Grondahl) discussed his introduction to BLS alumnus Percy Sutton. McCall stated on p. 127: "Sutton was a lawyer and prominent activist in the civil rights movement who had been a Freedom Rider and a lawyer who represented Malcolm X. After one term in the state assembly, he was elected Manhattan borough president. He held that powerful post from 1966 to 1977, making him both the longest-tenured and highest-ranking African American elected official in New York City."
On p. 234, Larry Menefee, Esq., discusses BLS alumnus Vernon Z. Crawford, Esq., and the law firm Crawford, Blacksher, Figures & Brown.
Senior U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of the Eastern District of New York graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1966.
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (HEIN).
Excerpt from collection description: Includes "hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights."
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (GALE).
Excerpt from collection's description: "Throughout the twentieth century Black Americans of all political persuasions were subject to federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution."
Subcollections:
Excerpt from Justice Thompson's biographical entry provided by Historical Society of the New York Courts: "Justice William C. Thompson was educated at Franklin K. Lane High School and Brooklyn College before earning his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1954. He was admitted to the bar in 1955 and began practicing with a specialization in criminal law. From 1965 until 1968 he served as a member of the New York State Senate, in that time working with Senator Robert F. Kennedy to establish the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and chairing the Joint Legislative Committee on Child Care Needs, sponsoring over 25 bills that would be signed into law. From 1969 until 1973, he served on the New York City Council. Thompson joined the bench when he was elected as a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1974. He was designated to the Appellate Term in November of that year, and in 1978 he was appointed Assistant Administrative Judge for Brooklyn and Staten Island. Justice Thompson was designated by Governor Hugh Carey to the Appellate Division, Second Department in 1980."
See also: Jeuness Track Club at https://www.jeunesstrackclub.com/ + Sisters on Track - A Netflix Original Documentary (2021) at https://www.sistersontrack.com/
Vernon Z. Crawford, Esq. is an alumnus of Brooklyn Law School.
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (GALE).
Gale's summary of this searchable collection: "[C]onsists of selected portions of the records of attorney Vernon Z. Crawford (1919–1986) and the Blacksher, Menefee and Stein law firm whose work represents a significant contribution to the shape of the civil rights movement in 20th century Alabama. Documents include legal documentation, complaints, petitions, requests, depositions, handwritten notes, correspondence, exhibits (maps, plans of school buildings, population diagrams), and surveys relating to cases on the following: discriminatory juror selection, civil rights violations (police harassment and brutality), discrimination in employment, school desegregation, and minority vote dilution." (Date range: 1958-1978, source institution: University of South Alabama)
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (PROQUEST). One can search within this collection or view a file list under: "Archival Arrangement." Excerpts from summary: "The 17,000-page file on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., compiled by headquarters officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, details the heavy surveillance and painful harassment that J. Edgar Hoover's FBI directed against America's foremost civil rights leader throughout the 1960s." "Part 2 of The Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI File, entitled The King-Levison File, consists of verbatim transcripts and detailed summaries of telephone conversations between King and one of his most trusted confidants, Stanley D. Levison, a New York lawyer and businessman with whom the civil rights leader spoke on an almost daily basis for more than six years."
Note: "Interviewed by Megan French-Marcelin on July 9, July 25, July 30, and August 12, 2014."
On p. 12 and p. 26 of this publicly accessible interview transcript, Mayor Dinkins discussed why he chose to attend Brooklyn Law School.
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (GALE).
Gale's description of this searchable "law and order" collection: "[D]ocuments the efforts of district attorneys from southern states to uphold federal laws in the states that fought in the Confederacy or were Border States. This publication includes their correspondence with the attorney general as well all other letters received by the attorney general from the states in question during that period, including the correspondence of marshals, judges, [incarcerated persons], and concerned or aggrieved citizens. (Date range: 1871-1884, source institution: U.S. National Archives)
