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Title: Benjamin S. Horack Papers, 1968-1971
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1968, 1971
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: Papers of a Charlotte attorney relating to his defense of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts were constitu...

Title: I understand they're passing the ole ball back to you, judge.
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-08-03
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Trials, litigation, etc., Discrimination in education
Description: Topics include: James B. McMillan; Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; School integration

Title: Series 2, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals proceedings
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1918, 1984
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: This series primarily comprises printed briefs prepared by the defendants and the plaintiffs for presentation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in May 1970.

Title: Series 3, U.S. Supreme Court proceedings
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1968, 1971
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: This series comprises material relating to the appeals of the original Swann suit from the Circuit Court of Appeals, and of the satellite suits from the three judge court, to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decisions of these two courts were appealed ...

Title: Sidney Freeman oral history interview 1, 2003 May 21
Creator: Freeman, Sidney L.
Date Created: 2003-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Education--Political aspects, Trials, litigation, etc., Equality, Race relations, Racism, College teachers, Unitarian churches--Clergy
Description: Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Freeman moved to Charlotte in 1957 to take the...