Scope and Contents

New York Supreme Court cases: "The New York Times v. City of New York Commission on Human Rights and American Committee on Africa, African Heritage Studies Association, One Hundred Black Men, Inc., and William Booth"; and articles and chapters relating to freedom of speech, the First Amendment, and migration to South Africa.

Scope and Contents Contains “A Uniform System of Citation” by the Harvard Law Review Association, 11th edition, 1967; memoradum reviewing cases involving the Commission on Human Rights of the City of New York, 1974; Brief of “Pace College v. City of New York Commission on Human Rights” [photocopy]; Five printed and bound booklets from Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. The Republica of Cuba and Daniel Solano Pinera,” 1974; and “The Act of State Doctrine: International Consensus and Public Policy Considerations”...

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).

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).

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).

Scope and Contents

Copious letters, notes, and memorandums regarding the New York Times case, particularly with the ACOA (some of which involve George Houser), the African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA), and the City of New York [some of these are photocopies, but most are original letters]; also included is a list of corrections that need to be made to one of the hearings, 1974.

Scope and Contents

Memorandums and correspondence with the ACOA and the LCCRUL concerning the New York Times case and black African discrimination in the U.S. and in Africa.