Record ID:
51933882 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 77014309
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • African Americans
Birth:
  • 19280225
  • Trenton (N .J.)
Death:
  • 19981214
  • Boston (Mass.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Occupations:
  • Judges Lawyers Civil rights workers
Used for:
  • Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-
  • Higginbotham, Aloyisus Leon, Jr., 1928-1998
  • Higginbothom, Aloyisus Leon, 1928-1998
  • Higginbotham, A. Leon, 1928-
Notes:
  • In matter of color, 1978-: t.p. (A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.) pub. info. (U.S. Circuit Court judge)
  • John F. Kennedy Library. Historical materials in the J.F.K. Library, 1990 (Higginbothom, A. Leon, 1928- ; lawyer; commissioner, Fed. Trade Commission; judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Penn.; v. chrm. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence)
  • LC data base, 8-8-91 (hdg.: Higginbotham, A. Leon, 1928- )
  • Martindale-Hubbell, 1977 p. 1179 (A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; b. 1928)
  • WW among Black Amer., 1975-76 p. 290 (A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; b. Feb 25, 1928)
  • WWA, 1974-1975 (Higginbotham, Aloyisus Leon, Jr.; judge; b. Feb. 25, 1928)
  • Harvard law bulletin, spring 1999 p. 56 (d. Dec. 14, 1998)
  • African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.; jurist / judge, civil rights activist; born 25 February 1928 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States; BA in Sociology, Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio (1949); LLB, Yale University (1952); assistant district attorney, Philadelphia; principal in the African American law firm of Norris, Green, Harris, and Higginbotham (1954-1962); president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); member of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed to the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, eventually becoming chief judge (1962-1993); taught both, law and sociology at a number of schools, including the University of Michigan, Yale, Stanford, New York University and Harvard Law School; worked for the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1995) and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1996); died 14 December 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)180957
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC MH-L DHU-MS DLC VJTL