Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Frank M. Johnson papers, 1865-1999

Title

• Frank M. Johnson papers, 1865-1999

Summary

• Correspondence, memoranda, agenda and minutes of meetings, reports, case files, opinions, orders, briefs, writs, motions, petitions, depositions, transcripts, notes, clippings, printed matter, and other papers documenting Johnson's career as a federal judge and his involvement in professional activities. Documents his service as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1955-1979), the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals of the U.S. (1972-1982), and the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit (1979-1981) and 11th Circuit (1981-1999). Also documents his membership on the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules for the Judicial Conference of the United States. Johnson's cases as district court judge pertain primarily to civil rights for African Americans, the mentally ill, and prison inmates. Significant cases include those relating to the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott (Browder v. Gayle), the Selma-Montgomery march (Williams v. Wallace), school desegregation (Lee v. Macon County Board of Education), and living conditions in Alabama prisons (Pugh v. Locke and James v. Wallace) and in the state's psychiatric hospitals (Wyatt v. Stickney). Papers from his service on the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals focus on energy regulations relating to the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. Johnson's files as appellate judge include cases relating to civil rights, constitutional law including search and seizure and constitutional challenges to state statutes, antitrust issues, prisoners' rights, and tax and bankruptcy issues. Also documents his work on the Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit leading to the impeachment of U.S. District Court judge Alcee L. Hastings. Subjects also include Alabama politics, civil disobedience, judicial activism, and the early history of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Includes the John B. Sandage file containing memoranda and draft opinions written by Sandage as law clerk for Johnson from 1985 to 1986.
• Correspondents include Griffin B. Bell, Harry A. Blackmun, John Robert Brown, Paul W. Bryant, Warren E. Burger, Emanuel Celler, J.P. Coleman, Morris Dees, Ira DeMent, John Doar, John C. Godbold, William Burnett Harvey, Fob James, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., William C. Keady, Clarence M. Kelley, Robert F. Kennedy, Seybourne H. Lynne, Burke Marshall, Walter F. Mondale, Huey P. Newton, Virgil Pittman, Frank T. Read, Richard T. Rives, Hugh Scott, Edward A. Tamm, Elbert P. Tuttle, Robert E. Varner, and Earl Warren.

Names

• Johnson, Frank M. (Frank Minis), 1918-1999
• Sandage, John B.

Headings

• -  Bell, Griffin B.,--1918-2009--Correspondence
• -  Blackmun, Harry A.--(Harry Andrew),--1908-1999--Correspondence
• -  Browder, Aurelia S.--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Brown, John Robert,--1909---Correspondence
• -  Bryant, Paul W.--Correspondence
• -  Burger, Warren E.,--1907-1995--Correspondence
• -  Celler, Emanuel,--1888-1981--Correspondence
• -  Coleman, J. P.--(James Plemon),--1914-1991--Correspondence
• -  Dees, Morris--Correspondence
• -  DeMent, Ira,--1931---Correspondence
• -  Doar, John,--1921-2014--Correspondence
• -  Gayle, W. A.--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Godbold, John C.--(John Cooper),--1920---Correspondence
• -  Harvey, William Burnett,--1922-1999--Correspondence
• -  Hastings, Alcee L
• -  James, Fob,--1934---Correspondence
• -  James, Worley--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Jordan, Vernon E.--(Vernon Eulion),--Jr.,--1935-2021--Correspondence
• -  Keady, William C.,--1913---Correspondence
• -  Kelley, Clarence M.--Correspondence
• -  Kennedy, Robert F.,--1925-1968--Correspondence
• -  Lee, Anthony T.--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Locke, Judson C.--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Lynne, Seybourn H.--(Seybourn Harris),--1907-2000--Correspondence
• -  Marshall, Burke,--1922-2003--Correspondence
• -  Mondale, Walter F.,--1928---Correspondence
• -  Newton, Huey P.--Correspondence
• -  Pittman, Virgil,--1916-2012--Correspondence
• -  Pugh, Jerry Lee--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Read, Frank T.,--1938---Correspondence
• -  Rives, Richard T.--(Richard Taylor),--1895-1992--Correspondence
• -  Scott, Hugh,--1900-1994--Correspondence
• -  Stickney, Stonewall B.--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Tamm, Edward A.--(Edward Allen),--1906---Correspondence
• -  Tuttle, Elbert P.--(Elbert Parr),--1897-1996--Correspondence
• -  Varner, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1921---Correspondence
• -  Wallace, George C.--(George Corley),--1919-1998--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Warren, Earl,--1891-1974--Correspondence
• -  Williams, Hosea,--1926---Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Wyatt, Ricky--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  Macon County (Ala.)--Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  United States.--Laws, statutes, etc.--Emergency petroleum allocation act of 1973
• -  United States.--Court of Appeals (5th Circuit)
• -  United States.--Court of Appeals (11th Circuit)
• -  United States.--Court of Appeals (11th Circuit).--Judicial Council
• -  United States.--District Court (Alabama : Middle District)
• -  United States.--Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
• -  Judicial Conference of the United States.--Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules
• -  African Americans--Civil rights
• -  Antitrust law
• -  Appellate courts--United States
• -  Bankruptcy
• -  Civil disobedience
• -  Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama
• -  Civil rights
• -  Constitutional law
• -  Courts--United States
• -  District courts--Alabama
• -  Energy policy--United States
• -  Federal-state controversies
• -  Mentally ill--Civil rights--Alabama
• -  Petroleum law and legislation--United States
• -  Political questions and judicial power
• -  Prisoners--Civil rights
• -  Searches and seizures
• -  Selma to Montgomery Rights March--(1965 :--Selma, Ala.)
• -  Taxation
• -  Trials
• -  Alabama--Politics and government

Notes

• -  Arranged in thirteen series. Series 1: United States District Court File, 1955-1980; Series 2: Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals File, 1971-1982; Series 3: 1993 Addition: United States District Court File, 1945-1983; Series 4: 1993 Addition: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit File, 1975-1981; Series 5: 1993 Addition: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1974-1989; Series 6: 1993 Addition: Miscellany, 1962-1981; Series 7: 2014 Addition: Personal File, 1865-1997; Series 8: 2014 Addition: United States District Court File, 1956-1980; Series 9: 2014 Addition: United States Court of Appeal File, 1971-1999; Series 10: 2014 Addition: Staff File, 1946-1998; Series 11: 2014 Addition: Speeches and Writings File, 1941-1996; Series 12: 2014 Addition: John B. Sandage File, 1985-1986; and Series 13: 2014 Addition: Closed, 1986-1989.
• -  Gift, Frank Johnson, 1990-1992.
• -  Gift, Ruth Johnson, 2000.
• -  Other gift, 2000-2011.
• -  Lawyer and judge.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011080

Medium

• 255,000 items.
• 734 containers.
• 294 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm92080675

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