The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. collection

Repository: University of Maryland. Thurgood Marshall Law Library

Collection Description (CRHP): The collection includes an interview transcript with Clarence Mitchell. Mitchell was a civil rights activist and lobbyist for the NAACP who worked to pass the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and '60s. His brother was U.S. Congressman Parren Mitchell.

Collection Description (Extant): Acquired as part of the African Americans in the Law project this collection of material, from the Larry Gibson collection, consists of photographs, pamphlets, speech transcripts and newspaper clippings by and about Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

Access Copy Note: Access to the collection is by appointment only.

Collection URL: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/mitchellpapers/clarencemitchellpapers.html

Language: English

Interviewees: Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African American civil rights workers
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1957
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts