Texas Human Rights Foundation records
Scope and Contents
This collection consists cheifly of legal documentation, board meeting minutes and reports, grant proposals articles, and ephemera.
Dates
- Creation: 1978 - 1995
Creator
- Kellett, John Steven (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.
Conditions Governing Use
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish from this material must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center.
Biographical / Historical
The Texas Human Rights Foundation records document a significant part of the Houston and Texas response to the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision, particularly their work around the Texas sodomy law that gives the long background story in the 1980s and 1990s for the Lawrence v. texas US Supreme Court case decided in 2003.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection comprises records and materials related to the Texas Human Rights Foundation, from 1978 to the mid 1990s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by John Steven Kellett on 5 March 2011, via Dr. Brian Riedel.
- Title
- Guide to the Texas Human Rights Foundation records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jeff Warner
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu