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<dc_title>Oral history interview with McNeill Smith</dc_title>
<dc_creator>Smith, John McNeill, 1918-</dc_creator>
<dc_subject>Lawyers--North Carolina--Greensboro</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Communism--United States</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Communist trials--United States</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--United States</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>Smith, John McNeill, 1918-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Scales, Junius Irving--Trials, litigation, etc.</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>Oral history in which McNeill Smith describes how his career in law began, gives some of his early work experiences, and tells of his involvement in associations such as the United World Federalists.  He primarily discusses the Junius Scales case, including explanation of the Smith Act, and the Speaker Ban Act case, including a history of previous related events and events leading up to the Ban.</dc_description>
<dc_description>The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.</dc_description>
<dc_publisher>Greensboro, N.C. : University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro</dc_publisher>
<dc_contributor>University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Greensboro Voices Collection (University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries)</dc_contributor>
<dc_date>2006</dc_date>
<dc_type>Oral histories</dc_type>
<dc_type>Transcripts</dc_type>
<dc_identifier>http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/civrights/detail-iv.asp?iv=127</dc_identifier>
<dc_source>Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library</dc_source>
<dc_relation>Forms part of online collection: Greensboro Voices.</dc_relation>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1977-03-07</dc_coverage_temporal>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Greensboro (N.C.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Guilford County (N.C.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
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