Civil rights

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A prominent attorney, Louis Isaacson was president of the Denver Bar Association, which honored him with its Award of Merit. He was a foundiing trustee of Rose Hospital and the Waterman Fund and very active in the Anti-Defamation League. An early supprter of pro bono legal services, he was a strong supporter of civil and legal rights.

Abstract Images of University of Denver Chancellor Maurice B. Mitchell and his actvities on the US Civil Rights Commission: 3 black and white prints, including Mitchell with Frankie Freeman and a headshot of Mitchell. 3 sets of black and white negatives with contact sheets and 11 black and white contact sheets without negatives, including images of Mitchell being sworn in as a member of the US Civil Rights Commission with Justice Robert McWilliams; on a civil rights panel at an ACU Black Experience...

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The Mrs. Lyle Burns Steever Papers consist of letters to Mrs. Steever from various government officials regarding Civil Service employment. The papers also contain letters and cards unrelated to employment.

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Topics cover Carol’s time serving with the NCJW, first as VP in the early 1960s and as president from 1967-1969; talks about Council’s work in the Civil Rights Movement and in the Middle East.

Abstract Peter H. Dominick (1915-1981) was an attorney who was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served as a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1963-1975. He also served as U.S. Representative from Colorado for the Second District from 1961-1963. In 1946, Dominick and his family moved from Connecticut to Colorado, where Dominick joined the Denver law firm of Holland and Hart as a partner. Sen. Dominick served on the Republican Policy Committee and he was the ranking minority...

Abstract Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on July 8, 1964. He discusses campaign contributions made by the Council for a Livable World to Democratic Congressional candidates in the Rocky Mountain Region. He also discusses a defeated amendment to a congressional pay raise bill as it relates to Bobby (Robert Gene) Baker, former Democratic Majority Secretary in the Senate, who took the 5th Amendment during a Senate Rules Committee hearing...

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Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on June 19, 1964. Sen. Dominick discusses the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the Senate, commenting on the number of days spent debating amendments to the bill and the new filibuster record that was set as a result. He expresses his hope that passage of the bill will ease racial tensions and provide equal opportunity under the law.

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Robert Freedman (1892-1990 SSI), president of the the Yellow Cab Company of Baltimore, Maryland, received the 1952 Sidney Hollander Foundation Award for integrating black and white taxi drivers within his company. Freedman and his wife moved to Denver, Colorado,in 1958, where there children were already living.

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Contains a DVD with Mizel Museum, Community Narrative featuring Sheldon Steinhauser speaking about his life and the thirid civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., on March 21, 1965. DVD is 29 minutes long.

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Series 10 of 11 Includes foreign relations trip materials, newsletters, radio scripts, press releases, weekly reports, and audio and video tapes.