Small archive relating to Conrad Lynn [1908-1995], civil rights lawyer: 1. Four of Lynn's passports, ranging in date from 1962 to 1984, 3 with the photograph signed by Lynn, 2 additionally signed where required, showing trips to Cuba and Vietnam (see below). Also a Manufacturers Hanover Trust deposit book covering the period 1976-1987, inscribed "Harlem Six Defense." 2. GEISMAR, MAXWELL. Typed Letter Signed ("M"?), May 16, 1974, to Lynn referring to "great news indeed, your hung jury" and to "reading Mao thought," short tear, fold, light soiling. The author Geismar's daughter Elizabeth had worked as Lynn's secretary. 3. A group of 18 buttons and pins, for causes including "Justice in Mississippi - Stop Klan Terror," "No More! Witch Hunts," "Support the Afro-American Cultural Foundation," "Dump [Ed] Koch." 4. Membership card for the Americans For Change Presidential Task Force, signed; medical emergency card, signed; entrance pass to the 7th Annual Paul Robeson Festival; an office key; program for Lynn memorial service; framed greetings card depicting Lynn as the successor to Lenin, Castro, Mao and other Communists. 5. Copy of Lynn's autobiography There is a Fountain, 1979. In a six-decade law career, Conrad Lynn participated in numerous controversial cases. He defended his brother Winfred who refused the draft of the US Army as a protest against their segregationist policies, and he publicized "The Kissing Case" of 1958 in which two black boys below the age of 10 were charged with attempted rape when a little white girl had kissed one of them. In 1967 he traveled to North Vietnam via Europe as a representative of the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Commission. Upon his return to New York, the State Department raided his office and confiscated his passport, as they had those of other Americans who had used their passports to enter North Vietnam. Lynn had seen this coming, however, and had in fact used not his passport but a document identifying him as a diplomatic aide of the Cambodian government. He was successful in his defense, and his was the last passport to be seized by the US Government in these cases. The present group includes that passport.
Small archive relating to Conrad Lynn [1908-1995], civil rights lawyer: 1. Four of Lynn's passports, ranging in date from 1962 to 1984, 3 with the photograph signed by Lynn, 2 additionally signed where required, showing trips to Cuba and Vietnam (see below). Also a Manufacturers Hanover Trust deposit book covering the period 1976-1987, inscribed "Harlem Six Defense." 2. GEISMAR, MAXWELL. Typed Letter Signed ("M"?), May 16, 1974, to Lynn referring to "great news indeed, your hung jury" and to "reading Mao thought," short tear, fold, light soiling. The author Geismar's daughter Elizabeth had worked as Lynn's secretary. 3. A group of 18 buttons and pins, for causes including "Justice in Mississippi - Stop Klan Terror," "No More! Witch Hunts," "Support the Afro-American Cultural Foundation," "Dump [Ed] Koch." 4. Membership card for the Americans For Change Presidential Task Force, signed; medical emergency card, signed; entrance pass to the 7th Annual Paul Robeson Festival; an office key; program for Lynn memorial service; framed greetings card depicting Lynn as the successor to Lenin, Castro, Mao and other Communists. 5. Copy of Lynn's autobiography There is a Fountain, 1979. In a six-decade law career, Conrad Lynn participated in numerous controversial cases. He defended his brother Winfred who refused the draft of the US Army as a protest against their segregationist policies, and he publicized "The Kissing Case" of 1958 in which two black boys below the age of 10 were charged with attempted rape when a little white girl had kissed one of them. In 1967 he traveled to North Vietnam via Europe as a representative of the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Commission. Upon his return to New York, the State Department raided his office and confiscated his passport, as they had those of other Americans who had used their passports to enter North Vietnam. Lynn had seen this coming, however, and had in fact used not his passport but a document identifying him as a diplomatic aide of the Cambodian government. He was successful in his defense, and his was the last passport to be seized by the US Government in these cases. The present group includes that passport.
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