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Court Documents, 1970

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The series primarily contains court documents in the Hobson v. Hansen case, originally filed in 1966, which challenged pupil tracking and expenditure inequities in D.C. public schools. Significant persons mentioned include attorney William Kunstler, plaintiffs’ attorney, and Judge Skelly Wright who ordered the D.C. school system to end de facto segregation in 1967. Court papers include court decisions, exhibits, depositions, interrogatories, and various motions in the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. The series also contains statistics gathered by Hobson to support the litigation, correspondence among parties involved in the case, reports, clippings, newsletters, and press releases.

Dates

  • Creation: 1970

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Conditions Governing Access

Series 3 thru Series 10:boxes 6 through 37 are currently being digitized and will be inaccessible until late 2024.

Extent

From the Collection: 107 Boxes

From the Collection: 51 Linear feet

Repository Details

Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository

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