Research Catalog

Title

Harold A. Stevens papers, 1907-1990 bulk(1936-1990)

Author

Stevens, Harold A., 1907-1990.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

8.4 lin. ft.(21 boxes)

Summary

• The collection documents Stevens' advancement to the highest court in New York State and his contributions to the legal profession particularly his role as a founder of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). Stevens' accomplishments are reflected in letters from his contemporaries, colleagues, and dignitaries. Approximately one third of the collection, ten archival boxes, from 1951 to 1969, consists of judicial journals or volumes containing descriptive notes and transcripts from court cases ranging from litigation between companies and personal lawsuits to grand larceny, robbery, separations and divorces, custody proceedings and murder trials over which Stevens presided. There is also one notebook entitled, "Torts, Abstracts, and Five Point Method Notes." The collection also contains some letters, legal documents from a few court cases, and two folders of International Commission of Jurists Conference papers. ̀
• During his professional career, Stevens founded two association, the Medical Malpractice Mediation and the National Center for State Courts. The former, informal association, was begun by him to reduce the backlog of medical malpractice cases in New York State. The latter, formal association was created by him to provide assistance and consultative services to improve state and local trial and appellate courts. Newspaper clippings and other memorabilia found in his scrapbooks, which comprise another third of the collection, document his career accomplishments in more detail than is available in his correspondence files.

Subjects

• Judgments > New York State
• Judges > New York State
• Trials > New York State
• Scrapbooks
• Stevens, Harold A., 1907-1990
• African American judges

Genre/Form

Scrapbooks.

Note

• Videotapes transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Division; photographs transferred to the Photographs and Print Division.

Source (note)

• Stevens, Ella M.

Biography (note)

• The late Justice Harold A. Stevens was born on John's Island, South Carolina. He was the first Roman Catholic African American to hold several judicial positions in successively higher courts in New York State (NYS). He was appointed to the NYS Supreme Court (1957), to the NYS Appellate Division (1968), NYS Court of Appeals (1974), and the Appellate Division (1977) from which he retired.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed
• Catalogued

Call Number

Sc MG 605

OCLC

NYPW98-A305

Author

Stevens, Harold A., 1907-1990.

Title

Harold A. Stevens papers, 1907-1990 bulk(1936-1990)

Biography

The late Justice Harold A. Stevens was born on John's Island, South Carolina. He was the first Roman Catholic African American to hold several judicial positions in successively higher courts in New York State (NYS). He was appointed to the NYS Supreme Court (1957), to the NYS Appellate Division (1968), NYS Court of Appeals (1974), and the Appellate Division (1977) from which he retired.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository.

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Finding Aid

Research Call Number

Sc MG 605