History of Legal Aid in the United States.

Steiner, R. James; Holahan, Carol J.

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Publication Date: 1994

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History of Legal Aid in the United States.

Steiner, R. James; Holahan, Carol J.

Update on Law-Related Education, v18 n3 p6-13 Fall 1994

Asserts that, although legal aid is only one program that provides legal services to poor people, there was a time in U.S. history when people who could not afford a lawyer had no way of solving disputes through the judicial system. Traces the history of legal aid from 1876 through the Great Depression and the Civil Rights movement until the present. (CFR)

Descriptors: Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Court Role, Courts, Discriminatory Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Protection, Justice, Law Related Education, Lawyers, Legal Aid, Legal Problems, United States History

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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