- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with McNeill Smith
- Creator:
- Smith, John McNeill, 1918-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1977-03-07
- Subject:
- Lawyers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Communism--United States
Communist trials--United States
Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--United States - People:
- Smith, John McNeill, 1918-
Scales, Junius Irving--Trials, litigation, etc. - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- 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.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A122
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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