History of the Federal Judiciary


  Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Research Collections

Black, Hugo Lafayette

Supreme Court of the United States (1937-1971)

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Papers, 1883-1976.
216 linear ft. (130,000 items); finding aid; restricted; collection contains family papers, correspondence, senatorial and Supreme Court files, speeches, writings, and miscellany.

Alabama Department of Archives and History
Montgomery, Ala.

Alabama Rural Electrification Authority administrative records, 1935-1939; 6 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

John Hollis Bankhead papers, 1880-1947; 8 cubic ft. (17 archives containers, 1 oversize box, and 6 oversize scrapbooks); finding aid; correspondence.

William Brockman Bankhead papers, 1875-1952; 33 cubic ft.; finding aid;
correspondence.

Charles Brandon Crow papers, 1920-1949; 1.7 cubic ft. (5 archives boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Clifford Judkins Durr papers, 1899-1976; 16 cubic ft. (46 archives boxes, 1 oversize box, and 5 oversize folders); finding aid; correspondence.

Virginia Foster Durr papers, 1904-1983; 1.3 cubic ft. (4 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder); finding aid; correspondence.

Durr family papers, 1868-1968; 2.3 cubic ft. (7 archives boxes and 1 oversize box); finding aid; correspondence.

Judkins family papers, 1837-1968; 0.6 cubic ft. (2 archives boxes, 1 vol., and 1 oversize
box); finding aid; correspondence.

Records of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, 1875-1986; 30 cubic ft. (30 boxes); finding aid; material related to Black?s political activities in Alabama.

Adele Kahn Weil scrapbook, 1901-1938; 1 item; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Hudson Strode papers, 1916-1976; 8 ft.; finding aid; 11 letters.

Auburn University
Auburn University, Ala.

Duggar family papers, 1823-1949; 9 cubic ft. (9 records center cartons); correspondence.

Columbia University
New York, N.Y.

Edward Clark Carter papers, 1851-1960; 5.5 linear ft. (ca. 5,600 items in 13 boxes); finding aid; represented.

Joseph Dorfman papers, 1890-1983; 40.5 linear ft. (ca. 35,700 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Milton Handler correspondence, 1927-1978; ca. 37,000 items; correspondence
concerning the U.S. Supreme Court.

Howard Selsam papers, ca. 1935-1972; ca. 6,000 items (11 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y.

Frank Ernest Gannett papers, ca. 1864-1958; 42 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Harvard University Law School
Cambridge, Mass.

Papers of Zechariah Chafee, 1898-1957; 50 linear ft. (ca. 22,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Felix Frankfurter, 1900-1965; 115 linear ft. (ca. 45,000 items); finding aid; restricted; represented in correspondence and case files.

Papers of Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr., 1930-1968; 4 linear ft. (ca. 1,600 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Haverford College
Haverford, Pa.

Fred Rodell papers, 1931-1974; ca. 350 items in 2 boxes; correspondence.

Indiana University
Bloomington, Ind.

Claude Gernade Bowers papers, ca. 1893-1972; 42 ft. (ca. 18,400 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Sherman Minton papers, 1934-1965; ca. 2,000 items; finding aid; represented in correspondence and case files.

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Ky.

Frederick Moore Vinson papers, 1907-1953; 189 cubic ft. (302,462 items); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Irving Brant papers, 1910-1977; 37,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

William Joseph Brennan papers, 1956-1990; 305,000 items; finding aid; restricted;
represented in correspondence and case files.

William O. Douglas papers, 1801-1980; 714 linear ft. (633,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Eric Frederick Goldman papers, 1886-1988; 43 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Hugh Gladney Grant papers, 1924-1933; 800 items; correspondence, reports, speeches, printed matter, and other papers Grant kept while serving as secretary to Black when he was a senator.

John Archer Lejeune papers, 1815-1950; 6,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Bayard Rustin papers, 1942-1987; 20 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Earl Warren papers, 1864-1974; 250,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Charl Ormond Williams papers, 1924-1959; ca. 3,200 items; finding aid; correspondence.

J. Skelly Wright papers, 1933-1987; 116 linear ft. (81,200 items); finding aid; correspondence.

University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Eleanor Margaret Bumgardner papers, 1919-1967; 8.2 linear ft. and 9 vols.; finding aid; correspondence.

Eugene Gressman papers, 1935-1967; 1 ft.; finding aid; restricted; notes of telephone conversations between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Frank Murphy and Black.

Frank Murphy papers, 1908-1949; 106 linear ft., 39 vols., and 2 oversize folders; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

George Murphy papers, 1911-1961; 15 linear ft. and 1 vol.; finding aid; correspondence.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, N.C.

Harry Golden papers, 1898-1970; ca. 42 ft. (ca. 40,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, Ohio

Walter Folger Brown papers, 1907-1950; 1 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.

Thomas F. Coakley scrapbooks, 1921-1949; 2 linear ft.; represented.

Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.

Edward Samuel Corwin papers, 1860-1961; 9.64 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Alpheus Thomas Mason papers, 1890-1988; 20.2 cubic ft. (28 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Radcliffe College
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
Cambridge, Mass.

Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush papers, 1920-1967; 1.5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
Hyde Park, N.Y.

Lowell Mellett papers, 1938-1944; 9 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; represented.

Syracuse University
Department of Special Collections
Syracuse, N.Y.

Harold Joseph Laski papers, 1918-1946; 0.5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vt.

Alfred Harris Heininger papers, 1900-1970; 6 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.

Homer Stille Cummings papers, 1886-1956; 171 ft. (ca. 24,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

James Hart papers, 1915-1953; 6 ft.; correspondence.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.

Adolph Germer papers, 1898-1966; 11.8 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.

Max Lerner papers, 1927-1980; 46 linear ft. (105 boxes); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

 

Submit Questions About Judicial History