Summary Information

Title: Eleanor Jackson Piel Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1954-1992

Creator:

• Piel, Eleanor Jackson, 1920-

Call Number: M2010-079

Quantity: 21.8 cubic feet (21 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Eleanor Jackson Piel, a New York City attorney known for handling civil rights and civil liberties cases, together with some papers of fellow attorney Philip Wittenberg that were in her custody. Selected based on legal or historical importance, the files represent a variety of types of litigation ranging from Sandra Adickes v. Kress, a precedent-setting civil rights case appealed to the Supreme Court, to numerous cases of discrimination based on gender, a Florida death penalty appeal, and numerous criminal cases of special note.

Language: English, Spanish

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2010079

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