Advocacy for ideas :, 1985

Resource Information

The work Advocacy for ideas :, 1985 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Manuscript, Books.

Label

Advocacy for ideas :, 1985

Statement of responsibility

interviewed by Michael S. Balter, Oral History Program

Inclusive dates

1985

Creator

• Rosenwein, Sam, 1905-

Contributor

• Balter, Michael S.
• University of California, Los Anngeles, Oral History Program

Interviewee

• Rosenwein, Sam, 1905-
• Rosenwein, Sam, 1905-

Interviewer

• Balter, Michael S.

Subject

• Criminal syndicalism -- California
• United States.
• Communism -- United States
• Rosenwein, Sam, 1905-
• Obscenity (Law) -- United States
• Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States
• Oral histories
• Lawyers -- California -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Oral histories

Language

eng

Summary

Discusses Rosenwein's early life and education in New York City, his involvement with the Young People's Socialist League, and the Communist Party. In his professional life he speaks about the defense of the Hollywood Ten; the California Smith Act cases; his association with Stanley Fleishman and pornography and obscenity as legal issues; civil rights and draft resistance cases in the 1960s; the ACLU, Nazis and Ku Klux Klan; and the Younger v. Harris criminal syndicalism trial. Notable among his cases were: Koenigsberg v. State Bar of California et al, Shibley v. United States, Roth v. Alberts, Miller v. California, Hamling v. United States, Eleazer Smith v. California, Zeitlin v. Arnebergh, Redrup v. New York, and Freeman v. Maryland

Note

Forms part of: Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Is part of

• Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Additional physical form

Audio recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Department of Special Collections by special arrangement.

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

CUY

Form designation

oral history transcript

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Location of originals duplicates

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.