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Harold A. Stevens moving image collection : 2 items.
- Title
- Harold A. Stevens moving image collection : 2 items.
- Author
- Stevens, Harold A., 1907-1990
- Publication
- [1997]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Stevens 1997-02 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Description
- 2 videocassettes
- Summary
- The collection consists of 2 moving image recordings: The Oral Recollections of Black South Carolinas, the Honorable Harold A. Stevens, 1985; and, The Stevens Portrait Ceremony, Boston College Law School, 1990.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video recordings.
- Note
- Born in Johns Island, South Carolina, Harold Arnoldus Stevens (October 19, 1907 – November 9, 1990) was an American lawyer and former judge who served on the New York Court of General Sessions and New York Court of Appeals. In 1936 he became the first African American to earn the LL.B. degree in labor law from Boston College. In the 1940s he was a counsel to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the Provisional Committee to Organize Colored Locomotive Firemen. In 1950, he was elected to the New York Court of General Sessions. In 1955, he was appointed by Governor W. Averell Harriman to the New York Supreme Court. In November 1955, he was elected to a fourteen-year term. He sat on the Appellate Division (1st Dept.) from 1958 on, and was Presiding Justice from 1969 on. In January 1974, Governor Malcolm Wilson appointed him to the New York Court of Appeals. This gave him the highest rank of any African American in a state judicial system; he was the first African American to hold a seat on the Court of Appeals.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Harold A. Stevens archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. (Sc MG 605). Photographs and can be found in the Photograhs and Prints Division.
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Stevens 1997-02
- OCLC
- 1182246212
- Author
- Stevens, Harold A., 1907-1990, creator.
- Title
- Harold A. Stevens moving image collection : 2 items.
- Publisher
- [1997]
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Harold A. Stevens archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. (Sc MG 605). Photographs and can be found in the Photograhs and Prints Division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Stevens 1997-02