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Hugo Lafayette Black Papers [Finding Aid] Hugo LaFayette Black Papers A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2000 Revised 2014 August Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.contact Additional search options available at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001046 LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm80012831 Prepared by Beverly Brannan and Allan Teichroew with the assistance of Pedro Alvarez, Paul Colton, Robert Doyle, Sheralyn McCoy, and Susie Moody Revised and expanded by Patrick Kerwin Collection Summary Title: Hugo LaFayette Black Papers Span Dates: 1883-1976 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1926-1971) ID No.: MSS12831 Creator: Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 Size: 130,000 items ; 513 containers plus 19 oversize ; 216 linear feet Language: Collection material in English Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Summary: Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, United States senator from Alabama, and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, notebooks, research materials, case files, legal and subject files, speeches and writings, printed and near-print materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating primarily to Black's service in the Senate (1927-1937) and on the Supreme Court (1937-1971). Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. People Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948--Correspondence. Black, Hollis--Correspondence. Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971. Black, Josephine Foster, 1899-1951--Correspondence. Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964--Correspondence. Cahn, Edmond Nathaniel, 1906-1964--Correspondence. Carswell, G. Harrold (George Harrold), 1919-1992--Correspondence. Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990--Correspondence. Cooper, Jerome A.--Correspondence. Davis, David Jackson, 1878-1938--Correspondence. Dilliard, Irving, 1904-2002--Correspondence. Dorfman, Joseph, 1904-1991--Correspondence. Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976--Correspondence. Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980--Correspondence. Durr, Clifford J. (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975--Correspondence. Durr, Virginia Foster--Correspondence. Frank, John P. (John Paul), 1917-2002--Correspondence. Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965--Correspondence. Grant, Hugh Gladney, 1888-1972--Correspondence. Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel), 1904-1994--Correspondence. Haynsworth, Clement F. (Clement Furman), 1912-1989--Correspondence. Hill, Lister, 1894-1984--Correspondence. Jackson, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954--Correspondence. Jarman, Peterson Bryant, 1892-1955--Correspondence. Johnson, Nicholas, 1934- --Correspondence. Keeffe, Arthur John--Correspondence. Laski, Frida--Correspondence. Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950--Correspondence. Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006--Correspondence. Madison, Charles Allan--Correspondence. Oberdorfer, Louis F. (Louis Falk), 1919- --Correspondence. Reich, Charles A.--Correspondence. Rodell, Fred, 1907-1980--Correspondence. Hugo LaFayette Black Papers 2 Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967--Correspondence. Ulmer, S. Sidney--Correspondence. Warren, Earl, 1891-1974--Correspondence. White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955--Correspondence. Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965--Correspondence. Wright, J. Skelly--Correspondence. Organizations Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Tennessee Valley Authority. United States. Congress. Senate. United States. Constitution. United States. Supreme Court. Subjects Civil rights--United States. Constitutional amendments--United States. Constitutional law--United States. Law--United States. New Deal, 1933-1939. Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. Public service employment--United States. Public utilities--United States. Religion in the public schools. School integration. Segregation in education. Tariff--United States. Places Alabama--Politics and government. Southern States--Politics and government. United States--Economic policy--1933-1945. United States--Politics and government--1933-1945. Occupations Jurists. Lawyers. Senators, U.S. Congress--Alabama. Administrative Information Provenance The papers of Hugo LaFayette Black, lawyer, United States senator from Alabama, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, were given to the Library of Congress by his widow, children, and others, 1972-1976. A small addition was given to the Library by Mae Jurow in 1998. Processing History The papers of Hugo LaFayette Black were first arranged and described in 1974. Subsequent additions were incorporated into an earlier version of this register published in 1982. Additional material received in 1998 was incorporated into the collection in 2000. Additional Guides The Hugo Black Papers have been partially described in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, v. 30, Oct. 1973, pp. 308-310. Hugo LaFayette Black Papers 3 Transfers Dictaphone recordings, phonodiscs, magnetic tapes, and motion pictures have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library, where they are identified as part of these papers. Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library, where they are also identified as part of the Black Papers. Copyright Status Copyright in the unpublished writings of Hugo L. Black in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress is dedicated to the public but reserved to certain members of the family during the lifetime of each member. Access and Restrictions Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions. Preferred Citation Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Hugo LaFayette Black Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Biographical Note Date Event 1886, Feb. 27 Born, Harlan, Ala. 1903 Attended Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, Ala. 1906 LL.B., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1907 Began private law practice in Birmingham, Ala. 1910-1912 Police judge, Birmingham, Ala. 1914-1917 County prosecutor, Jefferson County, Ala. 1917-1918 U.S. Army 1919-1927 Resumed private law practice 1921 Married Josephine Foster (died 1951) 1927-1937 United States senator from Alabama 1937-1971 Associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court 1957 Married Elizabeth Seay DeMeritte 1960 Delivered James Madison lecture at New York University Law School, New York, N.Y. 1968 Delivered Carpentier lecture series at Columbia University Law School, New York, N.Y. Hugo LaFayette Black Papers 4 1971, Sept. 25 Died, Bethesda, Md. Scope and Content Note The papers of Hugo LaFayette Black (1886-1971) span the years 1883 to 1976, with the bulk of the material beginning in 1926, the year of Black's successful campaign for the United States Senate. They relate to nearly every phase of Black's life, but are especially comprehensive for his tenure on the Supreme Court and for information about Alabama and New Deal politics between 1926 and 1937. Included are ten series: Family Papers, General Correspondence, Special Correspondence, Senatorial File, Supreme Court File, Speeches and Writings File, Miscellany, Oversize, Restricted Material, and an Addition. The early years of Black's life are best documented in the family correspondence and in a scrapbook of his first appointed office as police judge of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1910. Although there is almost no material from his boyhood and student days, there is a fair amount of biographical and genealogical data which he obtained from friends and relatives. Significant as well is correspondence with his first wife, Josephine, his son Hugo, Jr., whom he began writing in 1937, and relatives of his wife such as Virginia Foster Durr and Clifford J. Durr. The Durr correspondence is lengthy and sometimes intimate and contains the views of prominent Southern liberals who opposed Joseph McCarthy and others who they felt were curtailing civil liberties. A persistent theme in the Black Papers after 1954 is the tension between Black's Southern loyalty and the anger of friends, relatives, and former associates who opposed his position in Brown v. Board of Education. In addition to signing the unanimous opinion of the Warren Court in the landmark Brown case, Black supported other unpopular or controversial decisions which made him unwelcome in large parts of the South for many years. His opinions invalidating school prayer, his dissents defending the political rights of communists and other critics of the conventional order, and to a lesser degree, his longstanding support for reapportioning state legislatures all contributed to an estrangement between Black and his native region. Examples of this estrangement can be found in all portions of the collection, but are most evident in the Family Papers and General Correspondence series. Not all reactions were hostile and included in letters with acquaintances are positive responses from Alabama friends such as Grover C. Hall, Sr. and Grover C. Hall, Jr., Jesse B. Hearin, Ben Ray, and Albert Lee Smith. Many of these supporters were editors and officeholders from the New Deal period who had known Black
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