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Farnsworth, Susan, Larisa Filippov

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Susan Farnsworth is a 75 year old lesbian who has lived in Maine for over 50 years. She currently resides in Hallowell, ME, but has lived all over Maine and other places in New England. Farnsworth is an attorney and has her own law practice where she helps a variety of clients with their legal problems. She realized she was a lesbian while she was in law school during her marriage to a man. Farnsworth attended Bates College for her undergraduate degree before going to the University of Maine School of Law in Portland. The multiple political organizations she has …

Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman Interview; Oral History Project, Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman, Cristina E. Salazar, Shelby Nivitanont

Wyoming Oral History

Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman, Kepler Professor of Law, Director of School of Culture, Gender & Social Justice.

In this oral history, Professor Bridgeman discuses what it was like to grow up in Laramie, WY, her experience as a woman of color in the legal career field, and her accomplishments as a lawyer, law professor, and magistrate. Professor Bridgeman touches on stories from when President Obama was her professor at University of Chicago Law School, insights into current events in the Wyoming Legislature, and her perspective on diversity recruitment.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Jorge Baron, Maria Kolby-Wolfe, Kristen Smith Dayley, Twila Bird, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

The Northwest Immigrant Rights Program has been around for 35 years, started in 1984 specifically to help Central American refugees during the mid-1980s, when they were fleeing civil wars. A pro-bono group of attorneys performing "direct legal representation", helping low income community members who are navigating different aspects of the immigration system. NWIRP also engages in "systemic advocacy" which attempts to change systems and policies revolving around asylum and immigration rights.

Desegregation In Arkansas Lesson Plan

Lesson plans

This lesson explores desegregation in Arkansas through the use of primary and secondary sources. Students will read newspaper articles, manuscripts, and pamphlet excerpts to understand the story of desegregation in Arkansas. A list of various activities related to original primary and secondary resources allows teachers the flexibility to choose parts of this lesson plan to use and adapt as needed.

This lesson plan was produced for 9^th grade, 10^th grade, 11^th grade, and 12^th grade students, but may be altered by teachers to fit other grade levels.

The Law Book: From Hammurabi To The International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones In The History Of Law (Sterling), Michael Roffer

Books

The Law Book explores 250 of the most significant legal issues, cases, trials, and events that have profoundly changed our world. Although the heaviest emphasis is on American law it also touches on more than a dozen countries and the European Union, laws relating to Antarctica and Outer Space, and principles of international law. Among the topics it explores are the earliest legal codes, the role of juries, slavery and emancipation, civil rights, Native Americans, copyright, the press and free speech, immigration, censorship and obscenity, the environment, war and international relations, war crimes and trials, the insanity defense, taxation, prohibition, …

Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute In Virginia, Thomas Buckley

Faculty Pub Night

No abstract provided.

Union And States’ Rights: A History And Interpretation Of Interposition, Nullification, And Secession 150 Years After Sumter, Neil H. Cogan

University of Akron Press Publications

Edited by Neil H. Cogan, who is a well-versed legal scholar of constitutional law, civil rights, and civil and criminal procedures, this volume is a collection of papers on a central issue of governance in the United States; namely, what is the power of the States to object to and cancel Federal law with which they disagree. For eighty-one years, from the ratification of the Constitution to the end of the Civil War, this issue of State power was the central issue of governance. Chapters address the history and legal arguments for three assertions of such State power: interposition, nullification, …

Maine, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 1998, University Of Maine General Alumni Association

UMaine Alumni Magazines - All

Contents:

Goal, Lorenz! UMaine's Women's Hockey Star --- Too Much Mercury: UMaine Researchers Have Been Warning About Mercury Concentrations in Maine Waters for Decades --- Lighting 'The Lion King': UMaine Forestry Graduate Don Holder '80 Makes It to the Big Time as the Lighting Designer For One of Broadway's Biggest Hits --- Forcing Diversity Issues to the Forefront: An Ugly Racial Incident Leads to a UMaine Community Discussion on Making the Campus More Inviting for People of Color --- Supreme Justice: A Profile of Maine's Newest State Supreme Court Justice, Leigh Ingalls Saufley '76

William Gist Finley Papers - Accession 167, William Gist Finley

Manuscript Collection

William Gist Finley (1895-1969) was a lawyer and solicitor of the Sixth Judicial Circuit (1930-1950) from York, SC. The William Gist Finley Papers consist of biographical data, correspondence, photographs, speeches, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Finley’s career and death, and to York County’s history. Includes biographical sketch of David Edward Finley, a history of York, South Carolina, York Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) Church history, Bethel Presbyterian Church history, York County Bible Society records, Kings Mountain National Park, Rose Hill State Park near Union, South Carolina, and the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad.

Maine Supreme Court Justice Raymond Fellows On His Retirement, Wlbz Radio

WLBZ Radio Station Records

An interview recorded by telephone on September 23rd 1956 after Chief Justice Raymond Fellows of the Maine Supreme Court had been retired for just a week.

Memorial Program For United States Congressman Frank Fellows, Wlbz Radio

WLBZ Radio Station Records

Bill Mincher narrates a program following the sudden passing of United States Representative Frank Fellows of Bangor, Maine. The program includes recorded comments of Robert Hale, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Governor Frederick G. Payne and excerpts of speeched by Frank Fellows. Aired at 7 p.m., August 27, 1951.

Petition, Consolidation Of Districts Number 62 And Number 80

Arkansas schools

This document is proof of publication from the Walnut Ridge Times-Dispatch showing that they advertised the court proceedings to consolidate school districts number 62 and number 80.

Indictments, Damaging A School House

Arkansas schools

These are indictments for Owen Hilburn and John Adair for damaging the Dry Creek School House in Lawrence County, Arkansas.

The Upland Monitor: July 4, 1918, W E. Yeater

The Upland Monitor 1918-1919 (Vol 25)

The July 4, 1918 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: December 27, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The December 27, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: December 20, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The December 20, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: December 13, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The December 13, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: December 6, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The December 6, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: November 29, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The November 29, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: November 22, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The November 22, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: November 15, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The November 15, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: November 8, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The November 8, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: November 1, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The November 1, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: October 25, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The October 25, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: October 18, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The October 18, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: October 11, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The October 11, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: October 4, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The October 4, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: September 27, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The September 27, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: September 20, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The September 20, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.

The Upland Monitor: September 13, 1917, Chester N. Reed

The Upland Monitor 1917-1918 (Vol 24.2)

The September 13, 1917 edition of The Upland Monitor.