- unitid
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{"value"=>"3336594", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1986-2010", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1986/2010"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (CLCCRUL)"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>In the summer of 1963, civil rights activists throughout the South risked their lives to end discrimination and segregation. At President Kennedy's request, nearly 250 lawyers met at the White House; as a result, the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its regional affiliates were born. In 1969, in the aftermath of riots, violence, and mass arrests in response to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, and political protest and police brutality at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, a group of Chicago attorneys and law firms formed the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (CLCCRUL) to secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all. Since that time, the organization has operated as Chicago's preeminent non-profit, civil rights legal organization, producing important victories in fair housing, hate crime, education, and other important civil rights cases. Clyde Murphy became the organization's executive director in 1995, where he served until his death in 2010.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains background information on CLCCRUL; administrative matters, such as Murphy's hiring material, memos, and monthly calendars; material on the board of directors and grants; case materials and statements (briefs, correspondence, and reading material); Murphy's other writing (mainly, speeches and articles); outreach materials (committee and/or task force meetings, correspondence, agendas, etc.); and CLCCRUL publications (mostly annual reports). As with the LDF series, many of the case files only contain reading material and/or correspondence, and represent more of a statement or topic of discussion from the organization.</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_93bf1a82e0e12f80300fef46d90f6c21", "value"=>"<p>Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. \"Mission, Values and History.\" Accessed August 11, 2021, https://www.clccrul.org/mission-values-history.</p>"}
- date_start
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1986
- keydate
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1986
- date_end
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2010
- date_inclusive_start
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1986
- date_inclusive_end
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2010