The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Nebraska oral histories

Repository: Creighton University School of Law. Klutznick Law Library

Collection Description (CRHP): The project was funded by the Centennial Committee of the Nebraska State Bar Association, the Nebraska State Bar Foundation, and the Creighton University School of Law.

Collection Description (Extant): Over the last twenty years, Creighton University law professor Richard Shugrue conducted interviews of eighteen judges and politicians from Nebraska and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Historical Society of the United States Courts in the Eighth Circuit sponsored interviews of eight judges from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

Access Copy Note: Videos are streamed online.

Collection URL: http://www.creighton.edu/law/library/newtitlesspecialcollections/nebraskaoralhistories/index.php

Date(s): 1987-2007

Digital Status: Yes

Extent: 19 videodiscs 4 3/4 in.

Language: English

Related Archival Items: Donald P. Lay's papers are at the University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MsC858_laydonald.html

Interviewees: C. Arlen Beam, Donald P. Lay, Donald R. Ross, William G. Cambridge, Richard Peck, Richard E. Robinson, Lyle E. Strom, Robert Van Pelt, Warren K. Urbom, John T. Grant, Leslie Boslaugh, Hale McCown, William C. Hastings, C. Thomas White, Norman M. Krivosha, D. Nick Caporale, Roman L. Hruska, Carl T. Curtis, Frank B. Morrison

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

Subjects:

Civil rights--Cases
Civil rights--Nebraska
Nebraska. Supreme Court
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
United States. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit)
United States. District Court (Nebraska)

Genres:

Interviews
Videorecordings