John C. Satterfield American Bar Association Collection

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Title:John C. Satterfield American Bar Association collection
Date:1928-1974
Description:

John C. Satterfield presided over the American Bar Association from 1961 to 1962. In 1969, Time described him as “the most prominent segregationist lawyer in the country.” Satterfield represented Governor Ross Barnett against federal obstruction charges in conjunction with the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi and acted as counsel to the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission. He also served as special counsel for a number of public school districts across Mississippi and the South seeking to delay segregation, a consolidated case that reached as high as the Supreme Court.

Types:StillImage
Subjects:Satterfield, John C. | Satterfield, Mary | Kāmil, Maḥmūd | Smith, Sylvester C. (Sylvester Comstock), 1894- | American Bar Association | England | Law Society (Great Britain) | Portraits | Airplanes | Cairo (Egypt) | Delta Air Lines | Egypt. Maḥkamah al-ʻUlyā | Presidents | San Francisco (Calif.)
Institution:John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi)
Contributors:John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
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Persistent Link to Item:http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/satterfield