Descriptive Summary
Title
Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice Records
Inclusive Dates
1969-1998
Bulk Dates
1970-1990
Call Number
RG 534
Creator(s)
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race.
Lancaster, Kathy.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Racial Ethnic Ministry Unit.
Quantity
11.50 cubic feet (12 boxes)
Language
Materials primarily in English with some items in Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.
Digital Content
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Repository
Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA
Biographical Note / Administrative History
Administrative History
The 182nd General Assembly of the UPCUSA established the Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice (EFLA; later shortened to Fund for Legal Aid) in 1970. The Division of Church and Race (Council on Church and Race) of the Board of National Missions administered EFLA, with daily administrative work assigned to staff of the Mission Service Unit on Church and Race of the Program Agency. The Program Agency's Ministries of Health, Education, and Social Justice (Unit II) later administered EFLA through its Program Area on Racial Justice and Mission Development (in liaison with the Associate for Justice Systems Issues). Eventually, the Racial Justice Section of the Racial Ethnic Ministry Unit of the PC(USA) administered EFLA. EFLA administrators included J. Oscar McCloud, Wilbur K. Cox, J. Philip Park (administrator from 1973 to 1979), Kathy Lancaster (née Young; Lancaster was also Associate for Justice System Issues), and Otis Turner. Attorney Thomas F. Luce served as legal advisor to EFLA starting in 1972.
EFLA's main purpose was to provide financial grants to persons and groups engaged in litigation, research, and action in the field of equal justice. It concentrated its resources on those situations and cases where racial prejudice and discrimination combined with poverty and economic need to limit equal justice under law. Major guidelines for EFLA included: accepting applications for legal aid in both criminal and civil cases in which racial justice could be enhanced through the legal system; giving preference to cases where there was an inadequate source of funds; and concentrating on cases which reveal areas of systemic or structural inequality, particularly regarding issues of the pre-trial release system and bail, the jury selection process, legal defense mechanisms within minority communities, and legal rights of prisoners. EFLA updated its guidelines after the 193rd General Assembly (1981) to define case preferences, including: cases of class action litigation to achieve racial and ethnic minority rights; criminal cases with evidence of institutional discrimination; and civil actions to correct discriminatory situations.
EFLA accepted applications in any form, sharing them with UPCUSA and PC(USA) judicatories (synods and presbyteries) in which the project or case was located. Judicatories assisted in reviewing the cases, either recommending or not recommending EFLA funds to be used. EFLA staff accepted applications from individuals, church entities, and secular organizations. Additionally, legal advisors to the staff reviewed cases. If a synod or presbytery disagreed with making a grant to a case, the Program Agency Board made the final decision. One of EFLA's earliest grants was to the Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund (case number 12) in 1971. Other grants were made to Leonard Peltier, Native American activist and American Indian Movement (AIM) member (case number 126), in 1973 and to The Southern Poverty Law Center in support of Engedaw Berhanu's wrongful death and racial intimidation suit against White Aryan Resistance (WAR) founder Tom Metzger (case 399) in 1990.
Collection Overview
[Please note: Some materials within this collection contain graphic images and descriptions of violence, human rights violations, and hate crimes.]
This collection chiefly contains case files maintained by administrators and staff overseeing the Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice (EFLA) of the UPCUSA and PC(USA). Additionally, there are records that were maintained separately by EFLA administrator Kathy Lancaster.
The Case Files series, 1969-1998, consists of numerically arranged files pertaining to specific cases submitted to EFLA for funding and grant consideration. Materials within individual case files include correspondence (usually with applicants, church judicatories, and legal advisors); case summaries created by EFLA staff; financial records (chiefly disbursement vouchers of funds and grants sent to case applicants); background information on cases (mostly newspaper clippings and other printed ephemera); and legal documents, which include but are not limited to: briefs, motions, petitions, testimonies, progress reports, memoranda, indictments, dockets, and civil actions. Disbursement vouchers are often made out to presbyteries and synods involved in the review of a particular case but sometimes to external organizations, and correspondence generally shows the decision-making processes of EFLA staff, church judicatories, and legal advisors when considering funding a case. While most cases were approved for funding, some cases were rejected.
The Kathy Lancaster Files series, 1970-1993, consists of a separate set of records maintained by EFLA administrator Kathy Lancaster (née Young). Materials pertain chiefly to Lancaster's work on EFLA cases and include correspondence, summaries, reports, and statistics. There are also general inquiries sent to EFLA staff, EFLA guidelines and procedures, and other items documenting EFLA grants and the program's history.
Organization and Arrangement
The collection is arranged as follows:
SERIES I: CASE FILES, 1969-1998
SERIES II: KATHY LANCASTER FILES, 1970-1993
Alternative Formats
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Transferred from the Program Agency (New York) in 1978 and 1987 and from Racial Ethnic Ministries (Louisville, Ky.) in 1994 and 2002.
Processing Information
Collection processed and guide prepared in 2022 by Nicholas Skaggs, Processing Archivist.
While the processor maintained creator-supplied folder titles, the processor also created additional description to supplement folder titles. Processor-supplied descriptions are enclosed in square brackets in the Collection Inventory.
Preferred Citation
Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice Records, RG 534, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Catalog Headings
The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.
Personal Name Subject
Lancaster, Kathy.
Corporate Subject
Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.)
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
National Conference of Black Lawyers.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Program Agency. Unit II-Ministries of Health, Education and Social Justice.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Racial Ethnic Ministry Unit.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency. Ministries of Health, Education and Social Justice.
Topical Subject
Black power.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterians.
Discrimination in employment--United States.
Discrimination in housing--United States.
Discrimination in justice administration.
Hate groups--United States.
Indigenous peoples--United States. local
Legal aid.
Minorities--Crimes against.
Neo-Nazism--United States.
Prisoners--Civil rights.
Police brutality.
Race discrimination--United States.
Racial justice.
Racism--United States.
Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterians.
Genre-form
Case files. aat
Correspondence. aat
Financial records. aat
Legal documents. aat
Newspaper clippings. aat
Printed ephemera. aat
Printed materials (object genre) aat
Publications (documents) aat
Reports. aat
Personal Added Name
Lancaster, Kathy.
Corporate Added Name
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Racial Ethnic Ministry Unit.
Collection Inventory
Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Please note: Some materials within this collection contain graphic images and descriptions of violence, human rights violations, and hate crimes.] | |||
| SERIES I: CASE FILES, 1969-1998 | |||
| 1 | 1 | Case number 1: Robert Collier (21 Black Panthers of New York City) [assisted by Presbytery of New York City], 1970-1971 | |
| 1 | 1 | Case number 2: Alvin Evans, Voorhees Student Emergency Committee, Voorhees College, S.C. [assisted by Synod of South Carolina-Georgia], 1970 | |
| 1 | 1 | Case number 3: Linwood Chatman, Capitol East Community Organization, Washington, D.C. [assisted by Presbytery of Washington City], 1970 | |
| 1 | 1 | Case number 4: Elo L. Henderson, Synod of Catawba [regarding sanitation workers strike in Charlotte, N.C.], 1970 | |
| 1 | 1 | Case number 5: Eva Clayton, Warren County Students Legal Defense Fund [bail fund for African American students in Warrenton, N.C.; assisted by Synod of Catawba], 1970 | |
| 1 | 1 | Case number 6: Raul Quintana, Puerto Rican Student Union, Bronx, N.Y., 1970 | |
| 1 | 1 | Case number 7: Synod of Ohio, Free Speech Defense Fund, 1970-1971 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 8: Leon Dent and Gregory Walker, Legal Defense Fund, Cairo, Ill. [assisted by St. Columba Church], 1971 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 9: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Plant Management Engineering Center, Littleton, Colo. [regarding employment discrimination against Native Americans; submitted through JSAC and United Scholarship Service, Inc.], 1970 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 10: Programa de Renovación e Investigación Social y Adienstramiento (PRISA) [regarding Culebra Island and legal defense for Puerto Rican political prisoners], 1971 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 11: Smith Haven Ministries Bail Fund, Lake Grove, N.Y. [regarding legal fund for an unnamed African American student at State University of New York at Stony Brook; assisted by Presbytery of Long Island], 1971 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 12: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund [assisted by Rev. Eugene G. Turner, Office of Ethnic Church Affairs, Synod of the Golden Gate, San Francisco, Calif.], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 12: Letter from Robert A. Baker to Sophia LaRusso, 1972 May 17 | Digital |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 13: James A. Tyler, St. Louis County, Mo. [regarding eviction suit; assisted by Presbytery of Southeast Missouri], 1970-1971 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 14: NAACP Legal Defense Fund of North Carolina [regarding second annual dinner for Julius L. Chambers in Durham], 1971 | |
| 1 | 2 | Case number 15: "Proposal for a Survey of the Legal Status and Conditions of Non-Federally Recognized Indian Tribes," by Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Indian Legal Services Unit, Calais, Me. [includes signed resolution from members of the Indian Township Passamaquoddy Tribal Council], 1971 | |
| 1 | 3 | Case number 24: Paul A. Ellis defense funds [requested by Grace Presbyterian Church (Sacramento, Calif.), Rancho Cordova Presbyterian Church (Calif.), and Synod of the Sierra], circa 1970-1971 | |
| 1 | 4 | Case number 26: Fairfax Community Ministry, Washington, D.C. [regarding zoning ordinances in Fairfax County; requested by Presbytery of Washington City], 1971 | |
| 1 | 5 | Case number 29: Cornell Tahdooahnippah, et al. vs. John W. Thimmig, Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colo.), et al. [suit regarding termination of tuition scholarships for Native American students; assisted by United Scholarship Service, Inc.], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 6 | Case number 30: Private Larry Clark defense funds [requested by Forest Park United Presbyterian Church (New Berlin, Wis.) and Presbytery of Milwaukee], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 7 | Case number 31: North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners vs. doctors Reginald A. Hawkins, George T. Nash, and John P. Stinson, Charlotte, N.C. [assisted by Synod of Catawba and Synod of the Piedmont], 1972-1975 | |
| 1 | 8-9 | Case number 32: South Wilmington I-95 Connector, Delaware [assisted by New Castle Presbytery], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 10 | Case number 33: Constance (Connie) Tucker defense funds, Florida [assisted by Christ Presbyterian Church (Largo, Fla.), Trinity United Presbyterian Church (St. Petersburg, Fla.), and Presbytery of West Florida], 1971-1974 | |
| 1 | 11 | Case number 34: State of California vs. Charles Edward Stafford [assisted by Old First Presbyterian Church (San Francisco) and Synod of the Golden Gate], circa 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 12 | Case number 35: Lorine Hall case [assisted by South East Alabama Self-Help Association, Inc. (SEASHA), Tuskegee Institute], 1971-1973 | |
| 1 | 13-14 | Case number 36: Prison Law Project, Oakland, Calif. [includes printed item "Black Caucus Report: 'Treatment of Prisoners at California Training Facility at Soledad Central,' the California State Legislature, July 1970"], 1969-1973 | |
| 1 | 15-18 | Case numbers 37-37A: John Melvin McClellan defense funds [case regarding McClellan, a Black Panther Party member; assisted by Grace United Presbyterian Church (Toledo, Ohio) and Presbytery of Maumee], 1971-1973 | |
| 1 | 19 | Case number 40: Armando Vazquez defense funds, Long Beach, Calif. [assisted by Presbytery of Los Ranchos and Synod of Southern California], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 20 | Case number 41: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C. [regarding cases of Republic of New Africa (RNA) members, including Imari Abubakari Obadele; assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers], 1970-1973 | |
| 1 | 21 | Case number 46: Toni Renay Austin, Jackson, Miss. [regarding cases of Republic of New Africa (RNA) members], 1972 | |
| 1 | 22 | Case number 52: Harlem Four, New York [also referred to as Harlem Five and Harlem Six; regarding refunded bail; assisted by Charter Group for a Pledge of Conscience], 1972-1973 | |
| 1 | 23 | Case numbers 67-68: Jose Torres-Cruz and Ruben Vega-Merced [assisted by Puerto Rican Legal Defense Committee / La Casa de Puerto Rico, Hartford, Conn.]; James Shaw, Jr. [assisted by Presbytery of Connecticut Valley], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 24 | Case number 71: People's Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Tallahassee, Fla. [regarding defense of the Quincy Five (also called the Quincy Six); assisted by Synod of Florida], circa 1971-1973 | |
| 1 | 25 | Case number 72: Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe (Indian Township, Princeton, Me.), et al. vs. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior, et al. [regarding land claims; assisted by Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Indian Legal Services Unit, Calais, Me.], circa 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 26 | Case number 75: Tyrone Howard Justice Fund Committee [assisted by Glenville United Presbyterian Church and Community Center and Garden Valley Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio)], 1972 | |
| 1 | 27 | Case number 77: Concerned Citizen's Committee, Inc., Charleston, S.C. [regarding white students attacking African American students at James Island High School and defense funds for African American defendants], 1972 | |
| 1 | 28 | Case number 78: Nebraska Panhandle Community Action Agency, Inc. vs Ramon J. Perez, Sidney Grant Curtright, and Martin Douglas Strange [assisted by Atkins, Ferguson, Nichols, & Hahn, Attorneys at Law, Scottsbluff, Neb.], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 29 | Case number 83: State of Colorado vs. Anselmo Peralta and Raymond Roybal [assisted by First Presbyterian Church (Salida, Colo.) and Community Presbyterian Church (Brigham City, Utah)], 1972 | |
| 1 | 30 | Case number 85: All African Convention (AAC) & Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA) [regarding the Pietermaritzburg 13, also called the UMSA 13; assisted by Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law], 1972 | |
| 1 | 31 | Case number 86: Donald Hatch defense funds, Canton, Okla. [assisted by NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Shirley and Stevenson, Attorneys at Law, Watonga, Okla.], 1971-1972 | |
| 1 | 32 | Case number 88: Louis Cooper Defense Fund, Lincoln, Neb., 1972 | |
| 1 | 33 | Case number 89: Thomas George Allen, et al. vs. Pipefitters Local Union No. 208 of Denver, Colo., et al. [assisted by American Friends Service Committee, Inc., Denver], 1972 | |
| 1 | 34 | Case number 92: Wilmington 16 [assisted by United Church of Christ (UCC) Commission for Racial Justice and Catawba Inter-Presbytery Program Agency, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C.], 1972-1973 | |
| 2 | 1 | Case number 93: Committee for the Legal Defense of Kelly Church, Lockport, Ill. [assisted by Hampton Park United Presbyterian Church, Lockport], 1972 | |
| 2 | 2 | Case number 97: Washington County Welfare Rights Group, Glade Spring, Va. [regarding defense funds for defendants in Abingdon, Va.], 1972 | |
| 2 | 3 | Case number 98: Nathaniel Armstrong Legal Defense Fund, Nashville, Tenn. [assisted by Presbytery of Nashville], 1972 | |
| 2 | 4 | Case number 99: Helen Jean Turner case, Oklahoma City, Okla. [assisted by Synod of Oklahoma-Arkansas], 1972 | |
| 2 | 5 | Case number 100: Robert (Bobby) Lee Williams [assisted by United Front (Cairo, Ill.) and Presbytery of Elijah Parish Lovejoy (St. Louis, Mo.)], 1971-1973 | |
| 2 | 6 | Case number 104: Miners Project of the Washington Research Project, Washington, D.C. [regarding United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) election case], 1972-1978 | |
| 2 | 7 | Case number 107: Willie Hamm, New Jersey [assisted by Presbytery of Monmouth], 1972-1973 | |
| 2 | 8-9 | Case number 108: Pittsburgh Law Collective, Pa. [regarding prison reform case against State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh], 1971-1973 | |
| 2 | 10 | Case number 109: Foundation for New Business Ethic [regarding parole board reform litigation; assisted by Presbytery of Chicago, Ill.], 1972 | |
| 2 | 11 | Case number 111: Local Union 1888 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME, AFL-CIO; Jackson, Miss.) vs. City of Jackson, 1972-1973 | |
| 2 | 12 | Case number 113: Presbytery of Cleveland, Ohio [regarding de facto housing segregation suits against Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and the City of Cleveland], 1972-1973 | |
| 2 | 13 | Case number 116: NAACP Legal Defense Fund support [requested by Synod of Catawba, N.C.], 1972 | |
| 2 | 14 | Case number 117: Benny Dixon defense funds, Arizona [assisted by Presbytery of Southern Arizona], 1972-1973 | |
| 2 | 15-16 | Case number 118: Gail Madden and George Merritt, New Jersey [assisted by Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, Inc. and Synod of the Northeast Committee on Church and Race], 1972-1977 | |
| 2 | 17 | Case number 126: Leonard Peltier, Wisconsin [regarding Peltier, member of the American Indian Movement (AIM); assisted by Presbytery of Milwaukee], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 17 | Case number 126: Letter from Leonard Peltier to Rev. Ned H. Benson, circa 1973 | Digital |
| 2 | 18 | Case number 128: National Committee to Free Arthur (Burghardt) Banks [assisted by Roslyn Presbyterian Church, Roslyn, N.Y.], 1973 | |
| 2 | 19 | Case number 129: Ovide Duncantell, Texas [assisted by Gulf Coast Presbytery], 1972-1973 | |
| 2 | 20 | Case number 135: I. V. Chapman, Arkansas [assisted by West End Presbyterian Church (Arkadelphia, Ark.) and Synod of the Sun], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 21 | Case number 138: Klamath Falls community development - Organization of the Forgotten American, Klamath Falls, Or. [regarding support of community services for Klamath Indigenous people; assisted by Presbytery of Southwest Oregon and Synod of the Pacific], 1973-1973 | |
| 2 | 22 | Case number 141: Joyce Guerrero defense funds, Topeka, Kan. [case regarding support for Guerrero, a Potawatomi Indigenous woman; assisted by Synods of Mid-America], 1973 | |
| 2 | 23 | Case number 143: North Carolina NAACP Legal Defense Fund support [assisted by Catawba Inter-Presbytery Program Agency and Synod of the Piedmont], 1973 | |
| 2 | 24 | Case number 144: Thomas R. Pearson, Jr. defense funds, Knoxville College, Tenn. [assisted by First United Presbyterian Church, Knoxville], 1973 | |
| 2 | 25 | Case number 147: Brenda Evans, et al. vs. Madeline Buchanan, et al., U.S. District Court, Wilmington, Del. [regarding school desegregation case in Wilmington School District; assisted by Presbytery of New Castle], 1971-1973 | |
| 2 | 26 | Case number 148: Hojatullah Salehi defense funds, California [regarding support for Salehi, an Iranian student at Northwestern State College in Alva, Okla.; assisted by First Presbyterian Church (Fullerton, Calif.) and Presbytery of Los Ranchos], 1973 | |
| 2 | 27 | Case number 149: Chippewa of Lake Superior and the Mississippi [regarding treaty rights; assisted by Synod of Lakes and Prairies, Bloomington, Minn.], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 28 | Case number 150: Herbert George Powless defense funds [regarding support for Powless, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM); assisted by Presbytery of Milwaukee], 1973-1975 | |
| 2 | 29 | Case number 152: Asian Law Caucus, Inc., Oakland, Calif. [assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 30 | Case number 156: Mildred Prim and Thelma Moore defense funds, Buffalo, N.Y. [assisted by Presbytery of Western New York and Synod of New York], 1973 | |
| 2 | 31 | Case number 157: Paul Lester Bynum and Jollie Coley defense funds, Raleigh, N.C. [assisted by Calvary United Presbyterian Church (Wilson, N.C.) and Synod of the Piedmont], 1973-1975 | |
| 2 | 32 | Case number 158: State of Maryland vs. James Cecil Law [assisted by National Capital Union Presbytery and Synod of the Piedmont], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 33-34 | Case number 160: Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior, et al. vs. C. R. Mancari, et al. [U.S. Supreme Court appeal regarding Native Americans' preference in governmental selecting and appointing of persons to administer functions or services affecting any tribe], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 35 | Case number 162: Allen Frye, Donna Frye, and Gerald Grayson [assisted by Redstone Presbytery (New Florence, Pa.) and Synod of Pennsylvania-West Virginia], 1974-1975 | |
| 2 | 36 | Case number 163: Yvonne Wanrow Defense Committee, Inchelium, Wash. [regarding support for Wanrow, a Colville Indigenous woman; assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights, Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (Spokane, Wash.), and Synod of Alaska-Northwest], 1973-1977 | |
| 2 | 37 | Case number 164: State of Mississippi vs. Hickman Taylor [assisted by Synod of the South], 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 38-39 | Case number 165: Nemesio Domingo, et al. vs. New England Fishing Company [case regarding Alaska Native cannery workers litigation; assisted by Synod of Alaska-Northwest and Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (Seattle, Wash.)], 1973-1977 | |
| 2 | 40 | Case number 166: Claiborne Hardware Company (Mississippi), et al. vs. NAACP, et al., circa 1969-1974 | |
| 3 | 1 | Case number 166: Claiborne Hardware Company (Mississippi), et al. vs. NAACP, et al., circa 1969-1974 | |
| 3 | 2-3 | Case number 167: NAACP Legal Defense Fund support for capital punishment cases [assisted by Synod of the Piedmont], 1974-1976 | |
| 3 | 4 | Case number 168: Miguel Ronquillo vs. Tim Miller, et al. [assisted by Miguel Ronquillo Justice Committee (Santa Ana, Calif.), Presbytery of Los Ranchos (Anaheim, Calif.) and Synod of Southern California], 1973-1974 | |
| 3 | 5 | Case number 171: The Black Appalachian Commission, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. [regarding plans of the City of Harlan, Ky. to condemn the Georgetown Community, an African American community], circa 1973-1974 | |
| 3 | 6 | Case number 173: Attica Brothers Legal Defense (ABLD), New York [regarding legal aid to inmates indicted after the Attica Prison Rebellion; assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers], 1974 | |
| 3 | 7 | Case number 174: Constancio H. DeOcampo defense funds, Vallejo, Calif. [regarding support for DeOcampo, a Miwok Indigenous man; assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1973-1975 | |
| 3 | 8 | Case number 177: Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Anchorage [regarding equal education opportunity for Alaska Native children; assisted by Synod of Alaska-Northwest], circa 1973-1974 | |
| 3 | 9 | Case number 178: Leon Jones, et al. vs International Brotherhood of Teamsters, et al. [regarding racial discrimination against African American and Mexican American workers; assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1973-1976 | |
| 3 | 10 | Case number 179: Long Island Equal Justice Association, Smithtown, N.Y. [regarding case of Randy Brown; assisted by Presbytery of Long Island and Synod of the Northeast], 1975 | |
| 3 | 11 | Case number 181: Joanne Little defense funds, North Carolina [assisted by Synod of the Piedmont and Catawba Inter-Presbytery Program Agency], 1974-1975 | |
| 3 | 12 | Case number 183: Puerto Rican Legal Committee, Inc., Newark, N.J. [regarding legal and investigative work in a lawsuit seeking to end and redress instances of police brutality against Puerto Rican citizens in Newark; assisted by Synod of the Northeast], 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 13 | Case number 184: Norma Jean Serena, et al. vs. Natalie Leezer, et al. [regarding support for Serena, a Native American woman; assisted by Pittsburgh Presbytery and the Synod of the Trinity], 1975 | |
| 3 | 14 | Case number 185: Unión Nacional de Trabajadores and the Carborundum Company of Puerto Rico [case regarding unfair labor practices of the National Labor Relations Board; assisted by Puerto Rico Emergency Labor Law Project; includes Spanish language materials], 1975 | |
| 3 | 15 | Case number 186: Jimmy Molina vs. Guadalupe City Council, Arizona [regarding support for Molina, a Yaqui Indigenous man; assisted by the Presbytery of the Grand Canyon Mission Council and Synod of the Southwest], 1975 | |
| 3 | 16 | Case number 188: Miranda vs. Local 208 [case against Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO and four South Jersey manufacturers with a pattern and practice of discrimination against Puerto Rican workers' employment rights; assisted by Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.], 1973-1976 | |
| 3 | 17 | Case number 192: Virginia Cherry vs. City of Hayti Heights, Mo. [regarding support for the Committee of Concerned Citizens for Hayti Heights Legal Defense Fund; assisted by the Synods of Mid-America], 1975 | |
| 3 | 18 | Case number 193: Tapson Mawere and Synos Mangazva defense funds [assisted by Africa Defense and Aid Fund of the American Committee on Africa, New York], 1975 | |
| 3 | 19 | Case number 194: Kenne Hyun-Kyun Chang vs. University of California at Davis, et al. [assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1975-1979 | |
| 3 | 20 | Case number 195: Y. Grace Kim vs. Richland County Newhope Center, Mansfield, Ohio [assisted by Synod of the Covenant], 1975 | |
| 3 | 21 | Case number 196: Glynn Ray Simmons vs. State of Oklahoma [assisted by Washita Presbytery and Synod of the Sun], 1975 | |
| 3 | 22-24 | Case number 200: James Hirst, et al. vs. State of Montana, Glacier County, et al. [case regarding the death of Clayton David Hirst of Blackfeet Indian Reservation], circa 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 25 | Case number 201: National Defense Fund to Free Reverend Hosea L. Williams [regarding the case Williams vs. State of Georgia], 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 26 | Case number 203: Nguyen Da Yen, Nguyen Da Vuong, Nguyen Da Tuyen, et al. vs. James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, et al. [regarding case to reunite Vietnamese families affected by Operation Babylift; assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights], 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 27 | Case number 205: Frederick Daniel Pineda, et al. vs State of California [assisted by Presbytery of Los Ranchos], 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 28 | Case number 208: State of Minnesota vs. Dennis Morrison and Robert Dahl [cases regarding Grand Portage Litigation Project and Minnesota Chippewa Tribe treaty rights; assisted by Synod of Lakes and Prairies], circa 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 29 | Case number 209: John Yates, et al. vs. Local No. 7, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, et al. [assisted by Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (Seattle, Wash.) and Synod of Alaska-Northwest], 1976 | |
| 3 | 30 | Case number 210: Terry Noe, et al. vs. County of Lake, Ind., et al. [suit challenging the public defender system in Lake County; assisted by Synod of Lincoln Trails], 1976-1977 | |
| 3 | 31 | Case number 211: Vulcan Society vs. White Plains, New Rochelle, Yonkers and Mt. Vernon, N.Y. [regarding discrimination in the hiring of city firefighters], 1976 | |
| 3 | 32 | Case number 213: State of South Dakota vs. Leonard Crow Dog [regarding support for Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux (Sicangu Lakota) Indigenous man; assisted by National Council of the Churches of Christ (NCC)], 1976-1982 | |
| 3 | 33 | Case number 214: State of South Dakota vs. Mark A. Powless, et al. [assisted by Coffey & Coffey, Attorneys at Law, Milwaukee, Wis.], 1975-1976 | |
| 3 | 34 | Case number 215: State of Massachusetts vs. James Tam [assisted by Tam Defense Fund Committee (Boston, Mass.) and Synod of the Northeast], 1976-1977 | |
| 3 | 35 | Case number 216: State of California vs. Yung Min Kim [assisted by Korean American Committee for Equal Justice (Venice, Calif.) and the General Council of the Synod of Southern California], 1976-1979 | |
| 4 | 1 | Case number 218: Mexican American Law Students Association, University of New Mexico Chapter, and Bar Exam Litigation Committee vs. New Mexico Bar Examination [assisted by Presbytery of Santa Fe and Synod of the Southwest], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 2 | Case number 219: Jose Barlow Benavidez vs. City of Oakland, Calif. [regarding wrongful death suit against the Oakland Police Department; assisted by Centro Legal de la Raza and Synod of the Pacific], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 3 | Case number 220: Andres Figueroa Cordero, et al. vs. Edward Levi, et al. [assisted by Committee for the Freedom of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Prisoners; includes Spanish language materials], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 4 | Case number 221: Ruby Cozad vs. United States Indian Health Service, Oklahoma-Kansas Region [assisted by Native American Consulting Committee and Synod of the Sun], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 5 | Case number 222: United States vs. Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez [regarding support for Narciso and Perez, two women from the Philippines; assisted by Synod of the Covenant], circa 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 6 | Case number 223: State of Louisiana vs. Gary Tyler [assisted by National Committee to Free Gary Tyler], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 7 | Case number 224: State of California vs. Richard Mohawk (Richard Rolling Thunder) and Paul Leonard Durant (Blue Cloud / Paul Skyhorse), et al. [case regarding American Indian Movement (AIM) members; assisted by Synod of Southern California], 1976-1978 | |
| 4 | 8 | Case number 225: Coalition of Block Grant Compliance and Michigan Committee on Law and Housing vs. U.S. Department of Housing and Development and City of Livonia, Mich. [assisted by Presbytery of Detroit], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 9 | Case number 226: Puerto Rico vs. Professor Nelson Colon [assisted by Synod of Puerto Rico; includes Spanish language materials], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 10 | Case number 229: State of New Jersey vs. Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) [assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers], 1976-1977 | |
| 4 | 11 | Case number 232: State of Massachusetts vs. Tommy Walker [assisted Roxbury Defenders Committee, Inc. and by Synod of the Northeast], 1977 | |
| 4 | 12-14 | Case number 233: State of California vs. Wendy Yoshimura [assisted by National Jury Project, Asian Center for Theology & Strategies (Berkeley, Calif.), and Synod of the Pacific], 1976-1979 | |
| 4 | 15-16 | Case number 235: NAACP, et al. vs. Wilmington Medical Center, Delaware, et al. [assisted by New Castle Presbytery and Synod of the Piedmont], circa 1975-1980 | |
| 4 | 17 | Case number 236: State of Georgia vs. Dawson Five [assisted by Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization], 1977 | |
| 4 | 18 | Case number 240: Haitian refugees in Miami, Fla. [assisted by Presbytery of South Florida and Synod of the South], 1977-1978 | |
| 4 | 19 | Case number 241: James Hamilton vs. Regents of the University of California, et al. [assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 20 | Case number 242: United States vs. Raymond Piou [assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers], 1978 | |
| 4 | 21 | Case number 243: Belinda Rosario, et al. vs. New York Times Company [assisted by Synod of the Northeast], circa 1974-1979 | |
| 4 | 22 | Case number 244: National Jury Project vs. Escambia County and Baldwin County, Alabama, 1978 | |
| 4 | 23 | Case number 245: State of Nebraska vs. Tan Van Nguyen [assisted by Hastings College, Presbytery of Central Nebraska, and Synod of Lakes and Prairies], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 24 | Case number 246: Richard Marshall vs. State of South Dakota [assisted by Synod of Lakes and Prairies], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 25-26 | Case number 247: Vieques Island, Puerto Rico case [assisted by Synod of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico Legal Project; includes Spanish language materials], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 27 | Case number 248: State of Texas vs. Sidney Clarence Brown [assisted by Synod of the Sun], 1978 | |
| 4 | 28-30 | Case number 249: State of Oklahoma vs. Gene Leroy Hart [case regarding Hart, a Cherokee Indigenous man], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 31-32 | Case number 250: Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) of Spokane, et al. vs. Washington State University [assisted by Synod of Alaska-Northwest], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 33 | Case number 251: People vs. Carey Jaw Webster [case regarding Webster, a Suquamish Indigenous man in Washington], 1978-1979 | |
| 4 | 34 | Case number 252: Chol Soo Lee Legal Defense Committee, Sacramento, Calif. [assisted by Synod of the Pacific; includes Korean language materials], circa 1978-1983 | |
| 5 | 1 | Case number 252: Chol Soo Lee Legal Defense Committee, Sacramento, Calif. [assisted by Synod of the Pacific; includes Korean language materials], circa 1978-1983 | |
| 5 | 2 | Case number 253: State of Washington vs. Lloyd Ray Moore [assisted by Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church, Spokane, Wash.,] 1978-1982 | |
| 5 | 3-4 | Case number 254: United States vs. Thomas Hanigan and Patrick Hanigan [case regarding the Hanigans' torture of Mexican immigrants / migrant workers; assisted by National Coalition on the Hanigan Case and Synod of the Southwest], 1978-1980 | |
| 5 | 5 | Case number 255: State of California vs. Mexican American community members of Long Beach [assisted by East Long Beach Neighborhood Center and Synod of Southern California], 1978-1979 | |
| 5 | 6 | Case number 256: American Indian Treaty Council Information Center, New York [regarding prison conditions in South Dakota Penitentiary], 1978-1979 | |
| 5 | 7 | Case number 257: West End Health Center, Inc. vs. City of Cincinnati, Ohio [assisted by Synod of the Covenant], 1978-1979 | |
| 5 | 8 | Case number 258: State of Alabama vs. Tommy Lee Hines [assisted by NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Synod of the South], 1979-1980 | |
| 5 | 9 | Case number 259: Pittsburgh School Desegregation Project, Pa. [assisted by Pittsburgh Presbytery], 1978-1979 | |
| 5 | 10 | Case number 260: United States vs. Reverend Arthur Langford, Jr. [assisted by Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Ga.], 1979 | |
| 5 | 11-13 | Case number 261: Death Penalty Jury Project [regarding test case challenge to the constitutionality of the death-qualifying voir dire; assisted by National Jury Project], 1978-1980 | |
| 5 | 14 | Case number 262: Viola Liuzzo vs. FBI and the United States [wrongful death suit against the FBI regarding the murder of Liuzzo by Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama; assisted by American Civil Liberties Union], 1978-1979 | |
| 5 | 15 | Case number 263: Margaret Stark, et al. vs. State of Missouri [Kansas City school desegregation case; assisted by Kansas City Union Presbytery and Synods of Mid-America], 1977-1980 | |
| 5 | 16 | Case number 264: Marie Sanchez, Lame Deer, Montana, 1979 | |
| 5 | 17 | Case number 265: Ernesto Apodoca vs. San Francisco Unified School District, Calif. [assisted by La Raza Centro Legal, Inc. and Synod of the Pacific], 1978-1980 | |
| 5 | 18 | Case number 266: State of Michigan vs. Carl Mix [assisted by Presbytery of Detroit], 1979-1980 | |
| 5 | 19 | Case number 267: Bowie, et al. vs. Denver Department of Health and Hospitals, Colorado [assisted by Presbytery of Denver and Synod of the Rocky Mountains], 1979 | |
| 5 | 20 | Case number 268: Fund for Open Information and Accountability (FOIA), Inc. vs. FBI, 1979 | |
| 5 | 21 | Case number 269: State of New York vs. Robert Davis [assisted by Coalition of Concerned Black Americans], 1979 | |
| 5 | 22 | Case number 270: Major D. Calloway, et al. vs. Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Athens, Ga.), et al. [assisted by Synod of the South], 1979 | |
| 5 | 23 | Case number 271: State of Georgia vs. Andrew James Johnson [assisted by Synod of the South and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia], 1979 | |
| 5 | 24 | Case number 272: Victor Bono, et al. vs. William Saxbe, et al. [class action suit against Attorney General of the U.S. and Federal Bureau of Prisons regarding solitary confinement and the long-term control unit of the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Ill.; assisted by the National Committee to Support the Marion Brothers], 1978-1980 | |
| 5 | 25 | Case number 273: Luigi Grayer, Nebraska [assisted by Coalition to Free Luigi Grayer (Omaha, Neb.) and Synod of Lakes and Prairies], 1978-1980 | |
| 5 | 26 | Case number 274: State of Minnesota vs. Arnold Martin [assisted by Presbytery of Northern Waters and Synod of Lakes and Prairies], 1979-1980 | |
| 5 | 27 | Case number 275: Bernadette Powell Defense Fund, Ithaca, N.Y., 1979-1980 | |
| 5 | 28 | Case number 276: Emmanuel Gardner / Donald Reese, et al. vs. Lowell D. Hewitt, et al. [suit regarding conditions of confinement at State Correctional Institution, Huntingdon, Pa.; assisted by Keystone Legal Services, Inc., State College, Pa.], 1979-1983 | |
| 5 | 29 | Case number 277: Cerro Maravilla [assisted by National Lawyers Guild, Puerto Rico Legal Project], 1979-1981 | |
| 5 | 30-31 | Case number 278: Hemphill P. Pride, II vs. United States [assisted by Ladson United Presbyterian Church (Columbia, S.C.) and Synod of the South], 1978-1983 | |
| 6 | 1-2 | Case number 279: Pontiac 31 (also called Pontiac 17) - Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition [regarding the case People vs. John Bailey, et al. and Pontiac State Prison, Ill.], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 3 | Case number 280: James Simmons Defense Fund [regarding support of Simmons, a Muckleshoot Indigenous man at Walla Walla State Prison, Washington; assisted by Synod of Alaska-Northwest], 1979-1980 | |
| 6 | 4 | Case number 281: Homer G. Phillips Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. [regarding the case Earl Jackson and Ad Hoc Committee to Save Homer G. Phillips Hospital, et al. vs. James F. Conway et al.; assisted by Presbytery of Elijah Parish Lovejoy], 1980 | |
| 6 | 5 | Case number 282: Daniel Sullivan vs. El Concilio de la Raza, Santa Barbara, Calif. [assisted by Presbytery of Santa Barbara and Synod of Southern California], 1980-1982 | |
| 6 | 6 | Case number 283: Dinebeiina Nahiilna be Agaditahe (DNA) - People's Legal Services, Inc., Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Ariz. [case regarding San Francisco Peaks, Flagstaff, Ariz. and the Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi Indigenous peoples; assisted by Presbytery of Grand Canyon], 1980 | |
| 6 | 7 | Case number 284: Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada [regarding litigation against the U.S. Government in retaining lands stipulated in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley], 1980 | |
| 6 | 8 | Case number 285: National Indian Youth Council (Albuquerque, N.M), et al. vs. Cecil D. Andrus, U.S. Secretary of the Interior [regarding land in Burnham, N.M. and the Burnham Chapter of the Navajo Nation; assisted by Presbytery of Grand Canyon], 1980 | |
| 6 | 9 | Case number 286: Scarpelli vs. Chester Rempson, et al. [case regarding University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kan. [assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers and Kansas City Union Presbytery], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 10-11 | Case number 287: State of Oklahoma vs. Rita Silk-Nauni [assisted by Tie-Aum, Inc.: Legal Services for Indian People, Native American Center (Oklahoma City)], 1980-1982 | |
| 6 | 12 | Case number 288: Elmer Pratt (Geronimo Pratt), San Quentin Prison, Calif. [regarding support for Pratt, a former Black Panther Party leader; assisted by Synod of Southern California], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 13 | Case number 289: Ronald Brooks, Trenton State Prison, N.J. [assisted by Trenton Ecumenical Area Ministry], 1980 | |
| 6 | 14 | Case number 290: Michael Garza, et al. vs. Lincoln State Prison, Neb. / Nebraska State Penitentiary [assisted by Nebraska Civil Liberties Union and Synod of Lakes and Prairies], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 15 | Case number 291: Center for Constitutional Rights campaign against Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi violence, 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 16 | Case number 292: Dessie X. Woods (Atlanta, Ga.) legal funds [assisted by Coalition of Concerned Black Americans and Synod of the South], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 17 | Case number 293: Hugo Antonio Pinell, California [assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 18 | Case number 294: Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Atlanta, Ga., 1979-1981 | |
| 6 | 19 | Case number 295: State of Tennessee vs. Minnie Peoples and Elizabeth Dixson [assisted by the Church of Reconciliation (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Presbytery of St. Andrew], 1980-1981 | |
| 6 | 20 | Case number 296: Justice for Gordon Castillo Hall Committee, Glendale, Calif. [assisted by Synod of Southern California], 1979-1983 | |
| 6 | 21 | Case number 297: Reverend Roosevelt Haynes vs. County of Chautauqua, New York, et al. [assisted by Presbytery of Western New York and Synod of the Northeast], 1979-1981 | |
| 6 | 22-23 | Case number 298: Indian Law Resource Center [regarding land claims of Traditional Seminoles in Florida (Seminole Tribe of Florida); assisted by Presbytery of South Florida], 1980-1982 | |
| 6 | 24-25 | Case number 299: Dallas State Prison, Pa. [regarding suit by the Dallas (Pa.) Prisoners Against Long Term Confinement], 1982-1983 | |
| 6 | 26 | Case number 300: Dinebeiina Nahiilna be Agaditahe (DNA) - People's Legal Services, Inc., Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Ariz. [regarding Teec Nos Pos Boarding School, Arizona students; case of Begay vs. United States; and Navajo Indigenous children's rights; assisted by Synod of the Southwest], 1981-1982 | |
| 6 | 27 | Case number 301: Greensboro Justice Fund, Inc. and Greensboro Civil Rights Fund, North Carolina [regarding the Greensboro Five / Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members' acquittal of federal civil rights charges; assisted by Synod of the Piedmont], 1981-1984 | |
| 6 | 28 | Case number 302: Dr. Willie J. Smith vs. Rutgers University, N.J., 1981 | |
| 6 | 29 | Case number 303: Freedom of Residence, St. Louis, Mo. [regarding Carson family and Royster family housing discrimination cases; assisted by Synods of Mid-America], 1981 | |
| 6 | 30 | Case number 304: General Contractors Association of New York, et al. vs. Local Union 282, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), et al. [Black Economic Survival, et al. as intervenors; assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers and Synod of the Northeast], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 1 | Case number 304: General Contractors Association of New York, et al. vs. Local Union 272, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), et al. [Black Economic Survival, et al. as intervenors; assisted by National Conference of Black Lawyers], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 2 | Case number 305: Francisco Triana Rivero defense funds [assisted by San Francisco Council of Churches (California) and Redwoods Presbytery], 1981 | |
| 7 | 3 | Case number 306: Big Mountain Diné (Navajo) Nation, New Mexico, 1979-1981 | |
| 7 | 4 | Case number 307: Hanks Means, South Dakota, 1981 | |
| 7 | 5 | Case number 308: Interfaith Community Services (Inter/Serv) Day Care Center, St. Joseph, Mo. [assisted by Kansas City Union Presbytery and Synods of Mid-America], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 6 | Case number 309: Jorge Luis (Chiefie) de los Santos vs. State of New Jersey [assisted by Committee to Free Jorge Luis de los Santos, Presbytery of Newark, Synod of the Northeast], 1981-1983 | |
| 7 | 7 | Case number 310: Darrell R. Pace, et al. vs. Trailer Mart, Inc., et al. (Olmstead Township, Ohio) [assisted by Presbytery of Western Reserve and Synod of the Covenant], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 8 | Case number 311: Fannie Crumsey vs. Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Chattanooga, Tenn.) [assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights and Synod of the South], 1981-1983 | |
| 7 | 9 | Case number 312: Dotson vs. City of Indianola, Miss. [regarding voting rights of African American residents; assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights and Synod of the South], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 10 | Case number 313: South Carolina Mental Health Department, 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 11 | Case number 314: 92 Morningside Avenue, Harlem, New York City [National Conference of Black Lawyers, et al. vs. FBI and New York City Police Department; assisted by Synod of the Northeast], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 12-13 | Case number 315: Eddie J. Carthan / Tchula Seven (Mississippi) [assisted by Synod of the South and National Campaign to Free Mayor Eddie James Carthan and the Tchula 7 and to Preserve Black Political Rights], 1981-1984 | |
| 7 | 14 | Case number 316: Lennox Hinds [past National Director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers; assisted by Synod of the Northeast], 1981-1982 | |
| 7 | 15 | Case number 317: Willie J. Hamm, et al. vs. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1979-1982 | |
| 7 | 16 | Case number 318: John Excell McCombs, Jr., North Carolina [assisted by Synod of the Piedmont and Catawba Inter-Presbytery Program Agency], 1982-1983 | |
| 7 | 17 | Case number 319: New Hymn Community Defense Committee vs. Simpson County Board of Education (Mendenhall, Miss.) [assisted by Synod of the South and Community Law Office (Mendenhall)], circa 1981-1983 | |
| 7 | 18 | Case number 320: Salvadorean Refugee Defense Fund, Bay Area National Lawyers Guild Immigration Committee (San Francisco, Calif.), 1982 | |
| 7 | 19 | Case number 321: State of Maryland vs. Donald R. Cain, 1982 | |
| 7 | 20 | Case number 322: Luis P. Cabot, Chicago, Ill. [assisted by Presbytery of Chicago and Synod of Lincoln Trails], 1982-1983 | |
| 7 | 21 | Case number 323: David Madera Defense Committee, Inchelium, Wash., 1982-1983 | |
| 7 | 22 | Case number 324: White vs. Massachusetts Council of Construction, Affirmative Action Coordinating Center (Boston) [assisted by Synod of the Northeast], 1982-1983 | |
| 7 | 23 | Case number 325: Ernest Lacy, Wisconsin, 1982-1984 | |
| 7 | 24 | Case number 326: Otto Fontaine, Chester, Pa., 1982 | |
| 7 | 25 | Case number 327: Adam Montoya, Cuba, N.M. [regarding Board of Education of the Cuba Independent School District], 1982 | |
| 7 | 26 | Case number 328: George R. Ignacio and Minnie K. Ignacio vs. Phelps Dodge Mining Corporation, Arizona, 1982-1983 | |
| 7 | 27 | Case number 329: North Beach Tenants Association vs. San Francisco Housing Authority, Calif. [assisted by Synod of the Pacific], 1981-1984 | |
| 7 | 28-29 | Case number 330: Frank Fools Crow, et al. vs. Tony Gullet, et al. (South Dakota) [includes Oglala Lakota Legal Rights Fund (Pine Ridge, S.D.) materials], circa 1982-1984 | |
| 7 | 30 | Case number 331: Collins Catch the Bear, Yellow Thunder Camp, South Dakota, 1983 | |
| 7 | 31 | Case number 332: Villa Sin Miedo, Puerto Rico, 1983 | |
| 7 | 32 | Case number 333: Wrightsville, Ga. civil rights cases and appeals [assisted by Brian Spears, Atlanta, Ga.], 1983-1987 | |
| 7 | 33 | Case number 334: Ramon Nunez, et al. vs. James Sanders, et al. and Jesus Sanchez, et al. vs. Keith Harrod, et al. [cases regarding migrant farmworkers from Mexico in Monticello and Bradley County, Ark.; assisted by Arkansas Farmworkers Civil Rights Organizing Project], 1982-1984 | |
| 7 | 34 | Case number 335: Sonoma County Jail suit compliance [assisted by Operation Getting It Together, Inc. (California) and Presbytery of Redwoods], 1983-1984 | |
| 7 | 35 | Case number 336: Ida Dixon vs. Louis Rich Company, Newberry, S.C., 1983-1985 | |
| 7 | 36-37 | Case number 337: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Toledo, Ohio, 1978-1985 | |
| 7 | 38 | Case number 338: State of Nevada vs. Pacheco Gibson, Jr. [includes Western Shoshone Nation land rights materials], 1983-1986 | |
| 7 | 39 | Case number 339: Norris R. Jagnandan vs. United States, 1984-1985 | |
| 8 | 1 | Case number 340: Columbia River fishers defense / Columbia River Defense Project, National Lawyers Guild Committee on Native American Struggles, Portland, Or., 1983-1984 | |
| 8 | 2 | Case number 341: Marion Federal Penitentiary, Illinois, 1984-1985 | |
| 8 | 3 | Case number 342: State of Oklahoma vs. Sammy Van Woudenberg, et al., 1984 | |
| 8 | 4 | Case number 343: Frances Ann Young defense funds, South Dakota [case regarding Young, a Dakota Indigenous woman; includes Women of Red Nations materials], 1984 | |
| 8 | 5 | Case number 344: Mississippi Voting Rights Project [assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights], circa 1982-1984 | |
| 8 | 6 | Case number 345: Coalition to Free Darnell Summers, Detroit, Mich., 1983-1986 | |
| 8 | 7 | Case number 346: Land Reutilization Authority of the City of St. Louis, Mo. vs. Missouri Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), St. Louis, 1984 | |
| 8 | 8 | Case number 347: Salinas Association for Mutual Assistance (SAMA), Salinas, Calif., 1984-1985 | |
| 8 | 9 | Case number 348: Ciro DeLuca, Tontogany, Ohio, 1984 | |
| 8 | 10 | Case number 349: Michael Wei, La Jolla, Calif., 1984 | |
| 8 | 11 | Case number 350: Ft. McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community, Fountain Hills, Ariz. [assisted by Fort McDowell Presbyterian Church and Synod of the Southwest], 1984-1985 | |
| 8 | 12 | Case number 351: Greensboro Civil Rights Fund [regarding Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party cases in North Carolina; assisted by Synod of the Piedmont], 1984-1985 | |
| 8 | 13 | Case number 352: Republic of New Afrika-Eleven (RNA-11) [assisted by Clarence L. Cave, Associate for Black Mission Development, The Program Agency; includes Imari Abubakari Obadele correspondence], 1981-1985 | |
| 8 | 14-15 | Case number 353: Six Nations Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy land rights, New York [assisted by Indian Law Resource Center], 1983-1987 | |
| 8 | 16 | Case number 354: Gordon Hirabayashi - Committee to Reverse the Japanese American Wartime Cases, Seattle, Wash. [assisted by Synod of Alaska-Northwest], circa 1985 | |
| 8 | 17 | Case number 355: Lawrence Lee Chan-Yuen, New York City, N.Y. [includes Chinese language materials], 1985 | |
| 8 | 18 | Case number 356: Reverend Nathaniel T. Grady, Sr., Bronx, New York City, N.Y. [assisted by Synod of the Northeast], circa 1984-1989 | |
| 8 | 19 | Case number 357: Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Sharecropping Campaign, Toledo, Ohio [regarding case Raymond J. Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Labor vs. Jerry Brandel, et al.; assisted by Synod of the Covenant], 1984-1986 | |
| 8 | 20 | Case number 358: Alabama Black Belt Defense Committee, Gainesville, Ala. [regarding case United States vs. Albert Turner, et al.; assisted by Synod of the South], 1985-1986 | |
| 8 | 21 | Case number 359: Alfred McCray, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. [case regarding support of McCray, an African American soldier and military prisoner; assisted by Synod of Mid-America], 1982-1988 | |
| 8 | 22 | Case number 360: Voting Rights Project - Center for Constitutional Rights, 1985-1986 | |
| 8 | 23 | Case number 361: Nathaniel (Nate) Walker, Trenton, N.J. - Centurion Ministries, Inc., Princeton, N.J., 1985-1986 | |
| 8 | 24 | Case number 362: Reverend Robert R. Woods, Wallingford Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S.C. [assisted by Presbytery of Atlantic and Synod of the South], 1986 | |
| 8 | 25 | Case number 363: Nathan O. Strong vs. University of San Francisco, Calif. [assisted by Presbytery of San Francisco and Synod of the Pacific], 1984-1987 | |
| 8 | 26 | Case number 364: Sixteenth Census Tract Committee vs. City of Alexandria, Va. [regarding effects of gentrification on African American residents of Alexandria; assisted by NAACP Legal Defense Fund], 1986-1987 | |
| 8 | 27 | Case number 365: Goldman vs. Marsh [class action regarding employment discrimination against African American employees at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas; assisted by NAACP Legal Defense Fund], 1986-1987 | |
| 8 | 28 | Case number 366: José Moises Guzman Defense Committee, Houston, Tex. [includes Spanish language materials], 1986-1987 | |
| 8 | 29 | Case number 367: State of North Carolina vs. Darryl Eugene Hunt [assisted by Synod of the Piedmont], 1985-1987 | |
| 8 | 30 | Case number 368: Lemuel Smith, Great Meadow Correctional Facility, Comstock, N.Y. [assisted by Synod of the Northeast], 1986-1987 | |
| 8 | 31 | Case numbers 369A-369C: Native American Land Rights Project, Center for Constitutional Rights [regarding Big Mountain, Ariz.; White Earth Indian Reservation, Minn.; and Standing Rock, N.D.], 1986-1988 | |
| 8 | 32 | Case number 370: Patricia Baker-Benally and Fairbanks Native Association, Inc. vs. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Alaska, 1983-1987 | |
| 8 | 33 | Case number 371: Pan American / Pan African Association, Inc., "Applecrest" [regarding case Kahre-Richard Family Foundation, Inc. and Robert S. Pritchard vs. The Village of Baldwinsville, N.Y. and Rob Roy Pools, Inc.], circa 1976-1989 | |
| 9 | 1 | Case number 371: Pan American / Pan African Association, Inc., "Applecrest" [regarding case Kahre-Richard Family Foundation, Inc. and Robert S. Pritchard vs. The Village of Baldwinsville, N.Y. and Rob Roy Pools, Inc.], circa 1976-1989 | |
| 9 | 2 | Case number 372: Gaspar Reyes vs. City of Merced, Calif., et al., 1986-1987 | |
| 9 | 3 | Case number 373: Jacqueline Barbee-Bullock, Durham, N.C. [assisted by United Church of Christ (UCC), Commission for Racial Justice, Raleigh, N.C.], 1983-1987 | |
| 9 | 4-6 | Case number 374: Blackford Bend [regarding land litigation cases of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; assisted by Synod of Lakes and Prairies], 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 7 | Case number 375: United States vs. Dann [case regarding Western Shoshone National Council and Western Shoshone land rights in Idaho, Nebraska, and California], 1986-1988 | |
| 9 | 8 | Case number 376: White Earth Indian Reservation, Minn. civil rights litigation, 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 9 | Case number 377: White Earth Indian Reservation, Minn. land claim [regarding case Marvin Manypenny, et al. vs. Donald Hodel, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, et al.], 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 10 | Case number 378: Janice Shropshire, Nebraska, 1987 | |
| 9 | 11-12 | Case number 379: Manuel T. Fragante vs. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii [includes Na Lōio no na Kānaka: The Lawyers for the People of Hawaii materials], circa 1981-1989 | |
| 9 | 13 | Case number 380: Brotherhood March, Forsyth County, Ga. [regarding attack on march participants by the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi organizations; assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Democratic Renewal (Atlanta), and Synod of the South], 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 14 | Case number 381: African American farmers of North Carolina vs. U.S. Department of Agriculture and Farmers Home Administration [assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights and Synod of the Piedmont], 1987 | |
| 9 | 15 | Case number 382: Dr. Vincent D. Mallory, Fort Valley, Ga. [regarding case State of Georgia vs. Mallory; assisted by Synod of the South], 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 16 | Case number 383: Anthony H. Kates, Bedford, Ind. [assisted by Citizens Concerned About Justice for Tony Kates, Bloomington, Ind.], 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 17 | Case number 384: Professor Ernest F. Dube, et al. vs. State University of New York, Stony Brook, et al., 1987-1988 | |
| 9 | 18 | Case number 385: Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher vs. Robeson County, N.C. [case regarding Jacobs and Hatcher, two Tuscarora Indigenous men; includes audiocassette of NPR news segment; assisted by Center for Constitutional Rights], circa 1983-1988 | |
| 9 | 18 | Case number 385: Digitized audio - "Robeson County, N.C. - Eddie Hatcher / Timothy Jacobs - National Public Radio (NPR)," circa 1988 | Digital |
| 9 | 19 | Case number 386: Moses Williams vs. Rutgers University, N.J., et al., 1988 | |
| 9 | 20 | Case number 387: Benjamin Hoover, Sr., St. Louis, Mo. [case regarding police misconduct and brutality of the Jackson Mississippi Police Department], circa 1988-1989 | |
| 9 | 21 | Case number 388: Sandy Chavis Defense Fund, Pembroke, N.C. [regarding the murder of Julian T. Pierce, a Lumbee Indigenous man from Robeson County, N.C.], 1989-1990 | |
| 9 | 22 | Case number 389: Major Barnes, II, Defense Fund, Santa Ana, Calif., 1989 | |
| 9 | 23-24 | Case number 390: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Brian Glaspy, 1988-1989 | |
| 9 | 25 | Case number 391: National Credit Union Administration vs. Lawrence E. King, Jr. (Omaha, Neb.), 1989-1990 | |
| 9 | 26 | Case number 392: Joyce Ann Brown Defense Fund [assisted by Centurion Ministries, Inc. (Princeton, N.J.) and Grace Presbytery (Dallas, Tex.)], 1989-1990 | |
| 9 | 27 | Case number 392B: Richardo Aldape Guerra Defense Committee, Houston, Tex. [includes Spanish language materials], circa 1983-1988 | |
| 9 | 28 | Case number 393: Loyal Garner, Jr. Defense Fund (Hemphill and Sabine County, Tex.) [regarding case Corrine Garner, et al. vs. Thomas Ladner, et al.; assisted by Southern Poverty Law Center], 1988-1990 | |
| 9 | 29 | Case number 394: Louis Jackson, Stanford University, Calif. [assisted by United Campus Ministry at Stanford University, Presbytery of San Jose, and Synod of the Pacific], 1989-1990 | |
| 9 | 30 | Case number 395: Clint Campbell and Coalition for Justice, et al. vs. City of Dayton, Ohio [consent decree suit / permanent injunction against discriminatory conduct in hiring (Title VII) at the Police Department of Dayton; assisted by Synod of the Covenant], 1989-1990 | |
| 9 | 31 | Case number 395B: Hung Truong, Houston, Tex. [regarding two white skinheads' murder of Truong, a Vietnamese American teenager], 1990-1991 | |
| 9 | 32 | Case number 396: Boyce Grayson defense funds, Biloxi, Miss. [assisted by Partners for Global Justice: A Project of LAOS, Inc. (Ocean Springs, Miss.), Presbytery of Mississippi, and Synod of Living Water], 1989-1991 | |
| 10 | 1 | Case number 396: Boyce Grayson defense funds, Biloxi, Miss. [assisted by Partners for Global Justice: A Project of LAOS, Inc. (Ocean Springs, Miss.), Presbytery of Mississippi, and Synod of Living Water], 1989-1991 | |
| 10 | 2 | Case number 397: Moon H. Lee and Lynn Lee, Staten Island, New York [assisted by Presbytery of New York City], 1989 | |
| 10 | 3 | Case number 398: Joseph H. McMillan, Jr. Legal Defense Fund (Louisville, Ky.) [regarding case State of Michigan vs. McMillan], circa 1980-1990 | |
| 10 | 4 | Case number 399: Engedaw Berhanu vs. Tom Metzger, et al. (founder of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist group White Aryan Resistance [WAR]) [case regarding the murder of Mulugeta Seraw (an Ethiopian college student and the nephew of Berhanu) by white skinheads affiliated with WAR in Portland, Or.; assisted by Southern Poverty Law Center; contains graphic images], 1989-1991 | |
| 10 | 5 | Case number 400: State of Texas vs. Marvin Blaylock (Lubbock, Tex.), circa 1983-1990 | |
| 10 | 6-7 | Case number 401: Antavious Sentell Williams, et al. vs. Franklin Brown, chief of the City of Blakely Fire Department, et al. [case regarding the death of Williams, an African American child, and resulting in the resignation of Brown and two other members of the Ku Klux Klan from the Blakely Fire Department; includes videocassette tape (VHS) "Life & Death in Blakely, GA" (1991) and audiocassette "National Public Radio - Blakely, GA" (Thursday, June 28, 1990)], circa 1990-1991 | |
| 10 | 7 | Case number 401: Digitized video - "Life & Death in Blakley, GA," 1991 | Digital |
| 10 | 7 | Case number 401: Digitized audio - "National Public Radio - Blakely, GA," 1990 June 28 | Digital |
| 10 | 8 | Case number 402: United States vs. Mack H. Thomas (New Jersey), 1989-1990 | |
| 10 | 9-11 | Case number 403: State of Oklahoma vs. Timothy Bates (Anthony Achilta) [case regarding Bates, a Kiowa Apache Indigenous man], 1989-1991 | |
| 10 | 12 | Case number 404: Darryl B. Hood, Washington County, Tenn., 1989 | |
| 10 | 13 | Case number 405: Rose M. Sanders, et al. vs. City of Selma, Ala., et al., circa 1991 | |
| 10 | 14 | Case number 406: Keysville Nursing Home (Keysville Convalescent and Nursing Center, Inc.) vs. City of Keysville, Ga. [regarding the case James E. Pool, Jr., et al. vs. Emma Gresham, et al.], 1989-1991 | |
| 10 | 15 | Case number 408: Daufuskie Island, S.C. [regarding the case Shade Tree Partnership vs. Yvonne Wilson and Raymond L. Kelly], 1990-1993 | |
| 10 | 15 | Case number 408: Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice pamphlet, circa 1990-1993 | Digital |
| 10 | 16 | Case number 409: Sgt. Willie B. Knight and Louise Knight vs. New Farmers National Bank of Glasgow, Ky., et al. [assisted by Sgt. Willie B. Knight Memorial Fund, Louisville, Ky.], 1990-1992 | |
| 10 | 17 | Case number 410: Sabelo Neku, Washington, D.C., 1990-1991 | |
| 10 | 18 | Case number 411: Robert Jones, Jr. vs. James E. Lewis, et al. (Louisville, Ky.), circa 1980-1991 | |
| 10 | 19 | Case number 412: Margaret Greene and the Samish Indian Tribe of Washington vs. Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, and Tulalip Tribes of Washington, circa 1976-1995 | |
| 10 | 20-21 | Case number 413: Carrolton, Ga. civil rights cases [chiefly regarding the case and death of Michael Pinkard, an African American captain of the Fire Department of the City of Carrollton; assisted by Center for Democratic Renewal, Atlanta, Ga.], circa 1990-1995 | |
| 10 | 22 | Case number 414: Louise Thornton, et al. vs. City of Albany, N.Y., 1993-1994 | |
| 10 | 23 | Case number 415: Keith W. Warren case and Keith Warren Defense Fund, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. [assisted by National Capital Presbytery, Washington, D.C.], circa 1986-1995 | |
| 10 | 24 | Case number 416: Reverend Hector Delgado - Escuela de Desarrollo Vocacional, Inc., Puerto Rico [includes Spanish language materials], 1994 | |
| 10 | 25 | Case number 417: Piere Blue Horse, 1994 | |
| 10 | 26 | Case number 418: Southwest Organizing Project, Albuquerque, N.M., 1995-1996 | |
| 11 | 1 | Case number 419: Sherry Bright case and Sherry Bright Defense Fund, Wilmington, N.C., 1995-1996 | |
| 11 | 2 | Case number 421: Aaron Patterson, Illinois, 1986-1996 | |
| 11 | 3 | Case number 422: Lee Swann and Vera Swann case [regarding the case Swann vs. Mecklenburg County, N.C.; assisted by Presbytery of Charlotte], 1997-1998 | |
| SERIES II: KATHY LANCASTER FILES, 1970-1993 | |||
| 11 | 4 | "Church and Society" - Legal Aid issue - Working desk file, 1982-1987 | |
| 11 | 4 | "Church and Society," vol. 75, no. 1 - "Fund for Legal Aid: Racism, Justice, and the Church's Responsibility," 1984 September-October | Digital |
| 11 | 5 | Emergency Fund for Legal Aid (EFLA) binder [chiefly case summaries and correspondence], 1989-1993 | |
| 11 | 6 | EFLA budgets and grants lists, circa 1980-1984 | |
| 11 | 7-8 | EFLA case records and correspondence [includes Otis Turner's files], circa 1983-1997 | |
| 11 | 9 | EFLA case records and summaries - Case numbers 1-363, 1970-1986 | |
| 11 | 10-11 | EFLA case records, correspondence, and staff meeting memoranda, circa 1980-1984 | |
| 11 | 12-15 | EFLA case summaries, correspondence, reports, and statistics, circa 1970-1988 | |
| 11 | 16-17 | EFLA cases - General [includes newspaper clippings and correspondence], circa 1979-1985 | |
| 11 | 18 | EFLA correspondence, circa 1980-1986 | |
| 11 | 19-22 | EFLA general inquiries, circa 1980-1987 | |
| 11 | 23 | EFLA grants / history - GA carry file, circa 1975-1983 | |
| 11 | 23 | EFLA grants / history - GA carry file - EFLA pamphlet, circa 1975-1983 | Digital |
| 11 | 23 | EFLA grants / history - GA carry file - EFLA procedures and guidelines, circa 1981 | Digital |
| 11 | 24 | EFLA grants / history, circa 1979-1984 | |
| 11 | 25 | EFLA guidelines and procedures history, circa 1976-1981 | |
| 12 | 1 | EFLA guidelines and procedures history, circa 1976-1981 | |
| 12 | 2 | EFLA statistics, circa 1970-1984 | |
| 12 | 3 | "Judicial Process and Racism: Religious Community Involvement" - Reflection paper, 1986 | |
| 12 | 4 | Legal issues - General, circa 1982-1985 | |
| 12 | 4 | "Background Statement and Resolution on Racially Motivated Violence Against Asians in America," adopted by the 197th General Assembly, PC(USA), 1985 | Digital |
| 12 | 5-8 | National Council of Churches' (NCC) Ecumenical Minority Bail Bond Fund (EMBBF), circa 1975-1987 | |
| 12 | 9 | Polity - Historical study, circa 1970-1973 | |
| 12 | 10-11 | Printed items, circa 1971-1987 |