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Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

“Polaroid and South Africa” by the Africa Research Group and the Polaroid Workers Revolutionary Movement, March 21, 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Douglas Wachholz collection on the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Africa Project includes extensive material related to the case American Committee on Africa v. The New York Times which for Wachholz served as the lead lawyer for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other plaintiffs, a position he continued after leaving the staff of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).

Dates: March 21, 1971

Reports of Africa Project, 1974 - 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

“Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law” by Africa Legal Assistance Project, Interim Report, December 1, 1974 and Supplement to Interim Report, above (covering the period December 1974 to June 1975).

Dates: 1974 - 1975

Press Clippings and Press Releases, 1972 - 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Various articles and newspaper clippings addressing the New York Times and their involvement in South Africa; also includes several letters and reports from the American Committee On Africa (ACOA), including one from George Houser, and a press release from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).

Dates: 1972 - 1974

Court proceedings, 1973 - 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Douglas Wachholz collection on the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Africa Project includes extensive material related to the case American Committee on Africa v. The New York Times which for Wachholz served as the lead lawyer for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other plaintiffs, a position he continued after leaving the staff of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).

Dates: 1973 - 1974

Pleadings (Commn.) I and II – “American Committee on Africa, et al. v. The New York Times,” (New York City Human Rights Commission), 1972 - 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5-6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Douglas Wachholz collection on the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Africa Project includes extensive material related to the case American Committee on Africa v. The New York Times which for Wachholz served as the lead lawyer for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other plaintiffs, a position he continued after leaving the staff of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).

Dates: 1972 - 1973

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law - New York Times, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

This folder contains photocopies and some originals of pages from “Appeals to the Court of Appeals,” memorandums from the LCCRUL, correspondence with George Houser, and documents relating to the New York Times application for reargument of the case.

Dates: 1977

Extra Copies of Pleadings, 1974 - 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of court records, motions, affidavits, etc. from “The New York Times Company v. City of New York Commission on Human Rights,” also contains a edited draft copy of Douglas Wachholz’s Brief for Respondents-Interenors-Appellants.

Dates: 1974 - 1975

Human Rights – Ted Stein Harvard International Law Journal Article, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

“Comments – Public Interest Litigation and United States Foreign Policy” by Ted Stein, Harvard International Law 18, no. 2 (Spring 1977), 375-427 [photocopy]

Dates: 1977

New York Supreme Court and Court of Appeals (State of New York) briefs and reply briefs, 1974 - 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Douglas Wachholz collection on the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Africa Project includes extensive material related to the case American Committee on Africa v. The New York Times which for Wachholz served as the lead lawyer for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other plaintiffs, a position he continued after leaving the staff of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).

Dates: 1974 - 1975