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Summary Information
Lloyd A. Barbee Papers 1933-1982
Milwaukee Mss 16; Milwaukee Micro 42; Micro 920; Audio
983A
125.0 c.f. (115 archives boxes, 70 record center cartons, 34 card
boxes, and 3 flat boxes), 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 3 tape recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Papers of Lloyd A. Barbee, a Milwaukee civil rights activist, lawyer, and Wisconsin state legislator
(Assembly, 1964-1977). Included are personal correspondence; legal files; campaign files;
legislative subject files concerning abortion, the ERA, prison and court reform, the
Assembly Judiciary Committee, the Democratic Party, the Judicial Council, and court
reorganization; and files concerning his involvement in groups such as the Milwaukee United
School Integration Committee, Freedom Through Equality, Inc., the NAACP, and Milwaukee Legal
Services. Over half of the collection consists of research material and legal records of the
class action desegregation suit Amos, et al. vs. Board of School
Directors of the City of Milwaukee, et al. and its subsequent remand trial. Barbee
served as counsel for the plaintiffs for the duration of the trial from 1965 to 1980.
Included are correspondence; transcripts, exhibits, and other court records; as well as
charts, tables, graphs, maps, reports, school board minutes, and other materials concerning
research on student, teacher, and administrative assignment patterns, pupil transfer
policies, and building facilities. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00016
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