- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Louis Lusky, April 20, 1999
- Creator:
- Lusky, Louis
- Contributor to Resource:
- Fosl, Catherine
- Date of Original:
- 1997-12-09
- Subject:
- American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
American Civil Liberties Union
Race relations
Louisville (Ky.)--Race relations
Shively (Ky.)--Race relations
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957--Influence
Cold War--Influence
Reporters and reporting--Kentucky--Louisville
African Americans--Segregation--Kentucky--Louisville
Discrimination in housing--Kentucky--Shively
Bombings--Kentucky--Shively
Racism--Kentucky--Shively
Insurance agents--Kentucky--Shively
Discrimination in insurance--Kentucky--Shively
Communists--United States
Trials (Sedition)--Kentucky--Louisville
United States. Supreme Court
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Judges--Kentucky--Louisville
Lawyers--Kentucky--Louisville
African American lawyers--Kentucky--Louisville
Discrimination in restaurants--Kentucky--Louisville
Arrest--Georgia--Atlanta
Communist Party of the United States of America
Segregation in education--Kentucky--Louisville
Courage--Kentucky--Louisville
Lawyers--New York (State)--New York
Law firms--New York (State)--New York - People:
- Boudin, Leonard, 1912-
Lusky, Louis--Interviews
Wade, Andrew, IV
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Tachau, Eric, 1924-2002
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946
Grafton, C. W. (Cornelius Warren), 1909-
Root, Elihu, 1881-1967
Ballantine, Arthur A. (Arthur Atwood), 1883-1960
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Shively, 38.20007, -85.82274
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Description:
- Interview with Louis Lusky, April 20, 1999 conducted by Catherine Fosl.
Louis Lusky, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, was a well-respected civil liberties attorney, member of the ACLU, Betts Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and, in his early career, a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone. In this interview, Lusky discusses the socio-political climate of Louisville during the 1950s, the presence of McCarthyism, liberalism, and the general state of race relations, the mixture of which constituted the atmosphere wherein the Braden sedition trial unfolded. He speaks of the evolution of his legal career, his involvement with the ACLU/KCLU, his relationship with Carl Braden as a member of his defense team, and of the general dynamics of the trial. Lusky also speaks of Anne Braden, of his general impressions of her and her life's mission. - Metadata URL:
- https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7gms3jxd7f
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.
- Extent:
- 1 interview : [01:06:44]
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
- Rights:
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