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Southern Christian Leadership Conference records [bulk 1968-2003] > Legal records > Legal Department office files

Scope and Content Note

The subseries consists of the office files of SCLC's Legal Counsel from 1960-2002, including correspondence and office files. Correspondence is composed primarily of letters to and from the primary lawyers for SCLC, Chauncey Eskridge (1960s-1970s) and Roxanne Gregory (1990s-2000s). Many of the letters deal with matters that are not strictly legal in nature, as both Eskridge and Gregory were involved in a number of activities unrelated to their positions as SCLC legal counsel. Much of Eskridge's correspondence is with members of SCLC, though some deals with matters pertaining to his law firm, McCoy, Ming, and Black. There is a significant lack of materials from the 1980s, most likely due to Eskridge's death and Gregory not coming to work for SCLC until the mid-1990s. For records relating to Chauncey Eskridge's work as Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Foundation, see Series 15.

Office files consist of administrative records and subject files compiled from 1960-2002 relating to a variety of topics and operations. Subject files range from organizations such as the Center for Children and Education, an organization that Roxanne Gregory was heavily involved with, to records pertaining to estates that were distributing money to SCLC. The subseries also contains SCLC legal reports, materials about SCLC's National Conventions in the 1990s, and a comprehensive look at the SCLC Gun Buyback Program, in which SCLC (notably Randel Osburn and Roxanne Gregory) partnered with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold gun buyback events that would remove dangerous weapons from crime afflicted areas. For additional records of the Gun Buyback Program, see Subseries 10.9: Stop the Killing, End the Violence records.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by record type, then in chronological or alphabetical order.