Source Collection
This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library:
Jerome J. Shestack papers 1944-2011 and undated, bulk 1965-2000
Collection #RL.11610 | 128.25 Linear Feet (87 boxes)
ABSTRACT
Jerome Shestack was a Philadelphia lawyer and human rights advocate. His papers chiefly document the leadership roles he undertook for legal and social justice organizations such as the American Bar Association, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the International League for Human Rights, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and many others, and the histories of those entities. Series include extensive correspondence and subject files, organization files, writings and speeches, publications and clippings, as well as a small collection of personal files, photographs, and Shestack's World War II diary. Topics covered in the collection include but are not limited to: the history of the American Bar Association, law and legislation related to international and domestic human and civil rights, American government policies on human rights, Jewish human rights issues, the defense of political dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov, disappeared persons in Argentina, the rights of the mentally disabled, and Shestack's role in standing against the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive at Duke University.
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