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Joel Carlson South African legal files
- Title
- Joel Carlson South African legal files, 1958-1990.
- Author
- Carlson, Joel, 1926-2001.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 1 | Offsite | |
| Box 2 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 2 | Offsite | |
| Box 3 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 3 | Offsite | |
| Box 4 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 4 | Offsite | |
| Box 5 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 5 | Offsite | |
| Box 6 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 6 | Offsite | |
| Box 7 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 646 Box 7 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 7 lin. ft. (7 archival boxes)
- Summary
- Joel Carlson South African legal files, 1958-1990, chronicles Carlson's legal career in South Africa through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Modeling Carlson's own mapping of his life and career in No Neutral Ground, the collection highlights the kinds of cases that Carlson understood to define his anti-apartheid work - prison abuse investigations and the defense of political detainees - as well as his representation of Winnie Mandela and members of her family. Primarily organized chronologically by case type and individual case, the collection consists largely of correspondence legal documents relating to the trail and the defendants and news clippings.
- Subjects
- Apartheid > South Africa
- Anti-apartheid movements
- South Africa > Social conditions
- Mandela, Winnie
- Political prisoners > South Africa
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
- Imprisonment > South Africa
- South Africa > Race relations
- Crimes against humanity > South Africa
- Criminal justice, Administration of > South Africa
- Blacks > Legal status, laws, etc > South Africa
- Lawyers > New York (State) > New York
- Carlson, Joel, 1926-2001
- Lawyers > South Africa
- Apartheid > Law and legislation > South Africa
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Joel Carlson
- Biography (note)
- Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in February 1926, Joel Carlson was a lawyer who devoted his legal career to opposing apartheid. Through the 1960s and 1970s, he developed a reputation for defending Black South Africans in a variety of cases including removal from homelands, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture cases, and pass law violations. Carlson eventually opened his won civil rights practice, exposing Apartheid atrocities, which made him a target among government officials and the South African police. After years of harassment and numerous threats against his life, Carlson left Johannesburg in 1971, relocating to New York. In 1994, Carlson revisited South Africa, serving as a United Nations observer in the country's first free elections. He died of leukemia in Manhaset, New York, in 2001.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 646
- OCLC
- 863065329
- Author
- Carlson, Joel, 1926-2001.
- Title
- Joel Carlson South African legal files, 1958-1990.
- Biography
- Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in February 1926, Joel Carlson was a lawyer who devoted his legal career to opposing apartheid. Through the 1960s and 1970s, he developed a reputation for defending Black South Africans in a variety of cases including removal from homelands, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture cases, and pass law violations. Carlson eventually opened his won civil rights practice, exposing Apartheid atrocities, which made him a target among government officials and the South African police. After years of harassment and numerous threats against his life, Carlson left Johannesburg in 1971, relocating to New York. In 1994, Carlson revisited South Africa, serving as a United Nations observer in the country's first free elections. He died of leukemia in Manhaset, New York, in 2001.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 646