MenuPreliminary Inventory of the John S. Bradway Papers, 1922-1949
Abstract
Papers of John S. Bradway, lawyer, legal aid advocate, and educator. Bradway's primary interest and work was in the field of legal aid. He served as Secretary of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations (NALAO) from 1922-1940, and as its President from 1940-1942. While at Duke University, Bradway founded and directed the Duke Legal Aid Clinic from 1931 until 1959. The bulk of the collection reflects Bradway's role as Secretary for the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations (NALAO).
Materials include correspondence with various state and city legal aid bureaus, detailed statistics and annual reports from these organizations, correspondence with various national social service and aid agencies such as the National Conference on Social Work, and NALAO committee reports and conference proceedings. Also included are chapter files of his books, addresses, and articles written by Bradway on topics relating to legal aid.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University Archives, Duke University
- Creator
- Bradway, John Saeger, 1890-1985.
- Title
- John S. Bradway Papers, 1922-1949
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 60 Linear Feet, 40,000 Items
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
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The bulk of the collection reflects the work of John S. Bradway in his role as Secretary for the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations (NALAO). Materials include correspondence with various state and city legal aid bureaus, detailed statistics and annual reports from these organizations, correspondence with various national social service and aid agencies such as the National Conference on Social Work, and NALAO committee reports and conference proceedings. Also included are chapter files of his books, addresses, and articles written by Bradway on topics relating to legal aid.
The collection is unprocessed and remains in original order as found in boxes. Red volumes are subject bound letterbooks from Bradway's work primarily for and with the NALAO. There also appears to be two different numbered sets of Yellow volumes. One set contains NALAO material. Duke Legal Aid Clinic (DLAC) materials are also present.
Philadelphia: Legal Aid Bureau, Voluntary Defenders Committee
Buffalo Legal Aid Society
Philadelphia Conference of Social Work
-Pennsylvania: Pottsville, Scranton, Towanda, Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Rhode Island Legal Aid Society
Compis Juris of Legal Aid (outline)
Incorporation of NALAO
Case load questionnaire
Treasurer's Reports, 1927-1929
Member Reports
Correspondence with S.C., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Va., Wa., W.V., Wisc., Australia, Belgium, and the League of Nations
Legal Aid Society of San Francisco
Public Defender of Los Angeles
Legal Aid Bureau of Indiana
Legal of Bureau of Chicago-Criminal Courts Bureau
Legal Aid Society of Pittsburgh
Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania
Children's Bureau-Philadelphia
Legal Aid Society of Denver
Social Service Bureau-Pontiac, MI
Family Service Society of Canton, OH
Legal Aid Work: Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo
Correspondence, Greensboro, N.C.
National Social Work Council
Chicago University: School of Social Service Administration
Paper: "The Purpose and Nature of Courses in Law for Social Workers"
Miscellaneous documents relating to various NALAO committees
Newspapers Clippings
Specific Legal Societies
N.Y. Legal Aid Societies
Brief: Klein vs. Hultun, North Dakota Supreme Court
Paper: "Legal Aid Work-A Social Service"
International Legal Aid Work
Workmen's Compensation
International legal aid work
Papers and Speeches
Committee on the Public Defender
Figures of Legal Aid Organizations
Figures of Legal Aid Organizations
Biographical material on heads of NALAO member organizations (includes photographs)
Biographical material on heads of NALAO member organizations (includes photographs)
Figures of Legal Aid Organizations, 1932-1933
Figures of Legal Aid Organizations, 1931-1932
Figures of Legal Aid Organizations, 1927
NALAO Papers by the Secretary
Miscellaneous Reports
Ellis Estate: Reports of Similar Cases
NALAO Miscellaneous Committees
Relations with the Bar
Small Loans
Workmen's Compensation
Committee on Wage Claims
Ellis Estate: Material Relating to Waiting Lists
NALAO: Early Work of the Committee on Records, on Relations with Social Agencies and on Domestic Relations Courts, 1923-1924
Legal aid matters leading to the establishment of the NALAO on June 7, 1923
Legal aid material indicating work of Secretary, June-August, 1922
Ellis Estate: Miscellaneous Data Collected
Legal Aid Work of Clinic at Univ. of Southern California
Memphis Legal Aid Society
Social Welfare League, Seattle, WA
Material on International Law
Paper: "Public Legal Aid Work"
International Migration Service
Paper: "Does the Law Provide Adequate Protection for Beneficiaries of Charitable Trusts?"
Paper: "Charitable Trust of Charles E. Ellis"
Parents' Council of Philadelphia
Reading, PA Welfare Federation
Paper on: Average Man and his Chance in our Courts
NALAO Bulletins Nos. 1-38
NALAO Committee Reports
Legal Aid Society, Cincinnati
Pennsylvania Bar Association
National Probation Association
Chicago Legal Aid Society
Handbook Correspondence
Legal Aid Societies, Cleveland and Albany
Re: Legal Aid Work for Chinese
Reports
Children's Bureau-Philadelphia
Paper: "Co-operation of Legal Aid Societies and labor Commission in the Collection of Unpaid Wages"
Minimum Statistics
Legal Aid Society of N.Y.C.
Legal Aid Bureau of the Educational Alliance of N.Y.
National Desertion Bureau
N.Y. Legal Aid Society
N.Y. Section of the National Council of Jewish Women
Correspondence, N.J., Neb., N.Y. Legal Aid Society, N.Y. Voluntary Defenders Committee
Correspondence, Legal Aid Societies in Mich., Minn., Miss., Missouri, Mont.
NALAO Committees
NALAO Executive Committee
National Handbook
Committee on Domestic Relations Courts
Correspondence, Stockholm, India, Milwaukee, England, Honolulu, and Manila
Collections Judgements
Welfare Federation of Cleveland
Conciliation Courts
Boston Legal Aid Society-Workmen's Compensation
National Conference of Social Work
American Bar Association
NALAO Committee Reports
Correspondence with Alice Waldo
Paper: "Legal-social Investigation"
Child Welfare League of America
Draft of Handbook of Legal Aid Work
Books and Articles on Legal Aid Work
National Social Work Council
White House Conference on Child Health and Protection
Minimum Statistics
Papers: "Arbitration of Small Claims as a Relief for Court Congestion"; "The Massachusetts Workmen's Compensation Act in Action"
Correspondence with Reginald Smith
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Boston Legal Aid Society
Correspondence, Mass. and Mich.
Interracial Commission
N.C. Bar Association
General N.C. Correspondence
General Correspondence, Ohio, Okla., N.D., Ore., Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland
Auto chattel foreclosure
International Legal Aid Committee
NALAO Executive Committee
NALAO Committees
NALAO Financial material
NALAO Executive Committee
American Bar Association
Child Welfare League
N.C. Bar Association
Treasurer's Report
Brief on Question: "Are Legal Aid Societies Engaged in Unlawful Practice of the Law?"
Dept. of Public Welfare-Bureau of Legal Aid, Philadelphia
Correspondence with Roman Hassrick; The Annals
Voluntary Defenders Committee
Paper: "Desirability of a Public Defender"
Address: "Progress of Legal Aid Work in Pennsylvania"
Paper: "Legal Aid and Its Proper Relation to Members of the Bar"
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Organizations
Correspondence with Alice Waldo
National Conference on Social Work
Correspondence with Justin Miller concerning establishment of Legal Aid Clinic at Duke, 1930-1931
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
American Association for Labor Legislation
American Social Hygiene Association
Child Welfare League of America
Foreign Language Information Service
Family Welfare Association
International Migration Service
National Crime Commission
National Probation Association
NALAO Committees
NALAO Financial Material
NALAO Committee on Records
Biographical Material on Members
Correspondence re: Bulletins
Functions of Legal Aid Societies
Suggested outline of case studies book
Series of Papers read by Bradway-Report from United States to League of Nations: "Questions Relating to Legal Aid for the Poor", 1924 (prepared by NALAO)
"Footprints" -news clipping notebook on establishment of Duke Legal Aid Clinic
NALAO Executive Committee
W. Bruce Coble
National Symbol
Minimum Statistics
Financial Problems
NALAO Executive Committee
Detailed Statistics
Complaints
Biographical Material
American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
Phi Delta Phi
Bradway Paper: "Legal Internship"
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
Paper: "Unemployment as seen by Legal Aid Societies"
Address: "The Prisoner at the Bar"
Correspondence concerning Annals
Paper: "Case of the Dead Hand"
Correspondence with the Legal Aid Dept. of the Jewish Social Service Bureau of Chicago
League of Nations, 1925
Material on Political Science Course
Outline of textbook for Law Students in Legal Clinics
Southern California Legal Aid Clinic Association
Correspondence with Reginald Smith
Small Loan law
Loan Sharks
Minimum Statistics
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1923
Correspondence with Laura Spelman Rockefeller Assocation
New NALAO Constitution, 1925-1928
Paper: "An Analysis of the Legal Cases of The International Migration Service"
Draft of Report of Joint Committee on Domestic Relations Court
League of Nations, International Arrangements for Legal Assistance for the Poor
Paper: "Legal Aid Statistics and What they Show"
Preliminary notes and materials in preparation for book Bar and Public Relations
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Children's Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Establishment of Legal Aid Organization in Washington
Correspondence with W.H. Taft
Family Welfare Assoc. of N.Y.C.
Voluntary Defenders Committee of the Legal Aid Society
Handbook of Legal Aid Work
Legal Aid Newsletter and Misc. Correspondence
Legal Aid Society of Rhode Island
Creation of Newport, R.I. Legal Aid Council
Russel Sage Foundation
Charity Organization Society of Yonkers, N.Y.
Correspondence with Carl Wheaton
Preliminary draft of Committee on Curriculum
Memo to Dean Hale-Univ. of Southern California
General Correspondence with Univ. of Southern California faculty
Courts Committee of Brooklyn Bureau of Charity
National Desertion Bureau
Welfare Council of N.Y.C.
Louis Fabricant
Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo
Paper: "Legal Aid in Richmond"
Correspondence with Reginald Smith
Boston Legal Aid Society
Legal Aid Bureau of the Detroit Bar Association
General Correspondence while at Univ. of Southern California
Montreal Legal Aid Bureau
Correspondence with Justin Miller
Paper: "Plan for Legal Aid Clinic Association"
Establishment of Legal Aid Society in Birmingham, Ala.
Outline for A Statistical and Case Study in the Administration of Criminal Justice
Correspondence, New Orleans, Louisville, Atlanta
Papers: "Legal Aid Work and Law Schools"; "Legal Aid and Anti-Loan Shark Recorder"
Historical Note
John S. Bradway was born Feb. 17, 1890 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania to William and Jennie S. Bradway. He graduated from Haverford College with an A.B. in 1911 and an A.M. in 1915. He received his law degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1914 and received an honorary law degree from Haverford in 1957. Bradway began his academic teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught in the Sociology Department from 1927 to 1928. At the same time, he taught at the Pennsylvania School of Social and Health Work (1927-1929). In 1929 he moved to California and began a short career at the University of Southern California Law School (1929-1931). Bradway moved to Durham in 1931 where he taught law at Duke from 1931 to 1959. After leaving Durham, Bradway taught at the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco and at California Western University until his retirement in 1970. Bradway was married to Mary Henderson in 1921. He died on January 2, 1985 in Eureka, California.
Bradway's primary interest and work was in the field of legal aid. He served as Secretary of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations (NALAO) from 1922-1940, and as its President from 1940-1942. While at Duke, Bradway founded and directed the Duke Legal Aid Clinic from 1931 until 1959. The purpose of the Clinic was to provide practical training for law students. They participated in practical activities such as conferring with clients, gaining interview skills, and preparing a real case for trial. Students acquired skills in legal writing through the preparation of trial briefs and legal memoranda. The Clinic served clients who were unable to pay counsel fees, most often the indigent, immigrants, minorities, and servicemen. In addition to Bradway, the Clinic had a staff of five members of the North Carolina State Bar who assisted in educational and supervisory activities, as well as representing the Clinic's clients in court. Bradway lobbied throughout his career for law schools to make a commitment for student training through legal aid clinics.
Bradway's service to the legal aid community was extensive. He chaired the legal aid committees of the Pennsylvania and North Carolina Bar Associations, as well as the Legal Aid Clinics Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. He was also an active member of the National Conference of Social Work, the American Association of Social Workers, the International Bar Association, and served as chair of the Research Committee for the Interprofessional Commission on Marriage and Divorce Laws.
His dedication to social service and legal aid extended to state and local organizations. He served as president of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service, North Carolina Mental Hygiene Society, State Legislative Council, and as director of the North Carolina League for Crippled Children. In Durham, Bradway was president of the Durham Council of Social Agencies, Family Service Agency, Rotary Club, and the Crime Study Club. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Durham Child Guidance Clinic, Salvation Army Home and Hospital, YWCA, and Community Chest. In addition, he was chair of a committee appointed by the Durham City Council to establish a Juvenile Court in 1933, and of a committee appointed to study sub-standard housing in 1948.
Bradway wrote extensively on the topic of legal aid. His publications include:
- How To Organize a Legal Aid Clinic, 1931.
- Forms of Legal Aid Organizations, 1940.
- Duke University Legal Aid Clinic Handbook, 1954.
- The History of a Lawsuit, 1958.
- How to Practice Law Effectively, 1958.
Subject Headings
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John S. Bradway Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
Provenance
The John S. Bradway Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1962, 1973.
Processing Information
Processed by Archives Staff, June 2002
Encoded by Sherrie Bowser, October 2006
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