About 9,000 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

For the period 1920-1927, there are approximately 1,750 items. There are almost no papers for 1928-1929. The papers representing the 1920s consist of Parker's correspondence with other North Carolina lawyers, Republican Partyleaders, members of the faculty and administrative staff of the University of North Carolinaabout University affairs; some correspondence on the business of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina; and heavy correspondence in 1924 about the appointment of a federal judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina (the appointment went to Isaac Meekins) and in 1925 following Parker's appointment by President Calvin Coolidge to the North Carolina Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

In addition to the those listed in the chronological analysis that follows, correspondents in the 1920s include Giles Mebane, Walter Clark, William G. Bramham, Gilliam Craig, Harry Woodburn Chase, Iredell Meares, Calvin Coolidge, Marion Butler, Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, Josiah W. Bailey, Herbert F. Seawell, Isaac M. Meekins, E. W. Timberlake, Charles A. Jonas, Claudius Dockery, Johnson J. Hayes, Lily Morehead Mebane, Brownlow Jackson, Horace Williams, Edmund Waddill, Jr., David H. Blair, and Samuel Iredell Parker.

1920-1921: Letters from Giles Mebane, Beaufort, and other North Carolina attorneys concerning Republican Party business and patronage.

1922: Correspondence with other North Carolina lawyers on legal business or on behalf of the Republican Party. Public speaking invitations. Letters from Giles Mebane, Walter Clark (chief justice, North Carolina Supreme Court), and William G. Bramham, Durham, chair of the Republican State Executive Committee.

1923: Legal correspondence. Republican Party business. A few letters from and copies of Parker's letters to Harry W. Chase, president of the University of North Carolina, concerning Parker's activities on behalf of the Law School, the Medical School, and Graham Memorial Fund.

1924: The correspondence of this year is largely concerned with the contest between Herbert F. Seawell of Carthage, N.C., and Isaac M. Meekins for the appointment as federal judge for the Eastern District, N.C., left vacant by the death of Henry Groves Connor. Also a great deal of legal correspondence, Republican Party affairs, pamphlets, and press releases. 18 June and 18 December, Calvin Coolidge.

1925: Considerable correspondence with North Carolina Republican Party leaders and with members of the Republican National Committee. Letters about the newly created North Carolina Middle District federal judgeship from Herbert F. Seawell, Johnson J. Hayes, and others. Two letters, April and May, from Mrs. B. Frank Mebane (Lily Morehead Mebane). Endorsements, May-August, on behalf of Parker for the vacancy on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals created by the death of Judge Charles A. Woods. In October, there are hundreds of letters and telegrams congratulating Parker on his appointment.

1926: Republican Party correspondence. North Carolina Bar Association business and discussion of the bill then before Congress to raise judicial salaries. Letters from Isaac M. Meekins, Johnson J. Hayes, and Brownlow Jackson, the newly appointed chair of the Republican State Executive Committee. Gertrude Weil on the subject of the League of Women Voters.

1927: Correspondence similar to that of previous years. 9 March, Isaac M. Meekins with proposal to endorse Herbert F. Seawell for the new North Carolina Middle District judgeship. Letters from Thomas J. Harkins, Asheville attorney; Charles A. Jonas, S. A. Ashe, David H. Blair, S. I. Parker, Heriot Clarkson. In June, Parker was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of North Carolina.

1928-1929: Five letters of September 1928.

1930: January-February, correspondence with Parker's brother, S. I. Parker, with Charles A. Jonas, Horace Williams, and with trustees and other persons connected with the University of North Carolina on the subject of the resignation of Harry W. Chase as president. Parker was one of the committee of five University trustees named to pick Chase's successor. March-June is represented by about 3,000 items, nearly all related to the great effort made on Parker's behalf to have him appointed to the United States Supreme Court as successor to Justice Sanford, to the appointment finally made by President Hoover, and to the Senate's refusal to confirm the appointment. The papers contain hundreds of endorsements and copies of letters to the president, the attorney general, and others in influential positions in Washington from attorneys, judges, bar associations, and private individuals throughout North Carolina and other states. During the week of 21 March, Parker received the presidential nomination.

Correspondence of 21 March-6 May is concerned with congratulating Parker on his nomination, but many letters of those closest to the situation in Washington reveal their realization of the enormous pressure being exerted upon members of the Senate and Senate Judiciary Committee by the American Federation of Labor and the N.A.A.C.P., and their growing concern that the appointment will not be confirmed. This period includes correspondence with North Carolina Senator Lee S. Overman and David H. Blair of Washington, D.C., both of whom, among others, kept Parker informed of the storm gathering against him. Much data on the nomination and rejection are present in the papers, including copies of the cases Parker had decided which the A.F. of L. based their case against him. The N.A.A.C.P. based its arguments against Parker on remarks which he had allegedly made in a speech when he was campaigning for governor of North Carolina in 1920.

4 April, booklet entitled "Hearing before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate ... on the Confirmation of Hon. John J. Parker to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, April 5, 1930"; printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary by the United States Government Printing Office.

Endorsements on Parker's behalf continued to pour in during the period the Judiciary Committee was reviewing his record and hearing testimony. After Parker was passed on by the Committee and recommended to the Senate, his nomination was defeated by that body on 7 May by a vote of 41-39. Included is a booklet of newspaper clippings related to the Parker nomination and rejection for the Supreme Court bench and a separate file of letters in a cardboard binder, which are letters between Parker, Thomas W. Davis (attorney of Wilmington, N.C.), and David H. Blair of Washington, concerning their organized efforts within the ranks of the Senate in Washington for Parker's confirmation.

Parker's mail following his rejection by the Senate was heavy for many weeks, and, with a few exceptions, strongly sympathetic. By July of this year, Parker's correspondence took on a more legal and political nature and his defeat is less the topic of letters. During the last months of 1930, Parker corresponded with federal judges Elliot Northcott, W. E. Baker, Ernest F. Cochran, and William C. Coleman. Correspondence with these and many other jurists are appear until Parker's death.

Among the hundreds of correspondents for 1939 are Albert Coates, Iredell Meares, J. E. Shepard, John M. Morehead, and Herbert Hoover.

1931: Papers include the original notes of Horace Williams of the University of North Carolina. on the occasion, 4 May 1931, when John J. Parker was tapped by the Order of the Golden Fleece, an honorary student organization at the University. November, correspondence relating to the Constitutional Commission of the State of North Carolina, of which Parker was appointed a member by Governor O. Max Gardner.

1932: January-March, correspondence putting forth arguments pro and con on Senate bills 937 and 939 (72nd Congress) related to limiting federal judicial jurisdiction. 9 March, Angus W. McLean about the short ballot; 19 March, Harry Flood Byrd about the "short ballot"; 23 May, M. T. Van Hecke, dean of the University of North Carolina Law School, to Parker with attached copy of the report on taxation of the Constitutional Commission of North Carolina. Correspondence and other items for the balance of the year among members of the Constitutional Commission--Burton Craige, Michael Schenck, Charles B. Aycock, George E. Butler.

1933: A broad, general correspondence with other judges and lawyers about national problems, legal principles, federal power, and other issues. Correspondents include Hugh MacRae, Wilmington, about the gold standard and economic principles; John W. Davis, New York, about being offered the post of attorney general of the United States; Archibald Henderson and Frank Porter Graham about University of North Carolina matters, David H. Blair, Horace Williams, Haywood Parker, Asheville attorney, about the interpretation of an Article of the Constitution of the Diocese of North Carolina (Episcopal) and carbons of Parker's replies to same; Giles Mebane, J. E. Shepard, Robert W. Winston.

1934: Correspondence of a legal nature as previously. Also letters about the selection of the administrative deans for the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and State College at Raleigh. Many letters endorsing the appointment of T. S. Johnson as administrative dean of State College and a few endorsing John W. Harrelson, who received the endorsement of O. Max Gardner and became administrative dean (chancellor) of State College. 17 June, Josephus Daniels on the appointment of the administrative dean for State College, and 19 July on the proposed revised State Constitution. 13 Sept, "Letter to the Editor" and 14 newspaper articles dealing with the revised State Constitution by John J. Parker (copies).

Correspondents include Archibald Henderson, Frank Porter Graham, Horace Williams, Clyde R. Hoey, Clarence Poe, Louis Graves, Leslie Weil, Francis F. Bradshaw.

1937: Correspondence on the proposed amendments to the revised State Constitution, on Franklin Roosevelt's Court Bill then before Congress (severely critical), and concerning the celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States held on 7 September throughout North Carolina.

Correspondents include: 12, 30 January and later, Josiah W. Bailey on the judicial restraint, and copies of Parker's replies; 27 January, George Stephens, Asheville; 26 Februry and later, J. Melville Broughton, Raleigh, and copies of Parker's replies to same; Horace Williams; 9 August, Clyde Hoey, 23 August, Angus D. McLean, David H. Blair; 27 August, Sam J. Ervin. Scattered letters from Burton Craige, Winston-Salem. 8 October, David Clark, University of North Carolina trustee, on behalf of the Mecklenburg Chapter of the North Carolina State College Alumni Association concerning charges against "Doc" R. R. Sermon of the athletic staff of State College, also Clark letter on this subject in 1939.

1938: Correspondence on the subjects of the possibility of Franklin Roosevelt appointing Parker to the United States Supreme Court; the independence of the courts under the existing Supreme Court; House Bill 8892 on the limitations of the powers of the federal judiciary. Letters also include 16 March (mimeo) of Blake R. VanLeer, Dean of Engineering, North Carolina State College, enclosing copy of address "Graduate Work in Engineering and Related Sciences" by William E. Wickenden, president of the Case School of Applied Science. 8 November, Parker to James F. Byrnes concerning his son, John, Jr., who had been seriously injured in an automobile accident on 20 October, and asking Byrnes to speak to Roosevelt on his behalf (carbon copy). 9 November, Byrnes to Parker about advising Roosevelt, other matters of mutual interest. Correspondents include David H. Blair, Josiah W. Bailey, Horace Williams, and James W. Morris, assistant attorney general, concerning decisions affecting the Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, detailed legal issues.

1939: Correspondence with James W. Morris, as above, and with other federal judges concerning various legal problems. Other correspondents include David Clark, Charlotte, and Frank Porter Graham; 18 December, O. Max Gardner about conferring with Roosevelt; 4 August, Josephus Daniels.

1940: Mainly correspondence with other judges: Alvah M. Lumpkin, United States District Court, Columbia, S.C.; George W. McClintic, United States District Court, Charleston, West Va.; Frank K. Myers, United States District Court, Charleston, S.C.; Isaac M. Meekins, William H. Grimball, Charles Evans Hughes, Lawrence Groner. Letter from judges Myers and Lumpkin letters mainly concern a case then before the South Carolina District Court-- Southern Railway vs. South Carolina Public Service Commission. Also, 9 February, George Stephens, Asheville, to Chancellor Robert B. House (cc to Parker) concerning the political activities of Ralph W. McDonald of the University of North Carolina faculty; R. E. Little, Wadesboro, about University of North Carolina trustee business; letters about Horace Williams's final illness and funeral. 18 December, O. Max Gardner about conferring with Roosevelt on behalf of Parker's receiving a Supreme Court appointment.

1941: Correspondence with other judges and attorneys about judicial and some personal matters. Items during the first months of the year about the possibility of Parker receiving an appointment to the United States Supreme Court, in the event of the resignation of Justice McReynolds. 21 January, Franklin D. Roosevelt, thank-you note; Frank Porter Graham, Judge Elliot Northcott, Fred W. Morrison of Washington, D.C., Charles Evans Hughes, Armistead M. Dobie, Frank O. Ray, S. S. Lameth, Jr., of Bedford, Va., and Z. [echariah] Chafee, Jr., professor of law at Harvard University.

1942: Legal correspondence as previously. Letters to Roosevelt (copies to Parker) endorsing Parker for the United States Supreme Court to replace James Byrnes. Also, 4 January, Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. 16 January and 4 May, Mrs. Ben C. Hough, Jr., Lancaster, S.C., concerning representing a group of South Carolinians petitioning against the removal of the remains of William R. Davie. Correspondence with W. T. Couch, director of the University Press, Chapel Hill, and with R. W. Winston about publishing Winston's book on Horace Williams. September, O. Max Gardner about his role in having Frank. Porter Graham elected president of the University and bringing about consolidation of the Greater University of North Carolina.

1943: Legal correspondence, as previously, and letters related to Parker's work with the Advisory Board on Just Compensation. Letters from Judge Bolitha Laws, beginning this year and continuing until the year of Parker's death. A few of the correspondents were Frank O. Ray, Texas; 13 January, Wiley Rutledge, just appointed by the President to the United States Supreme Court; 27 January, Jacob Billikopf, Philadelphia, Pa., and letters also of subsequent years: Judge W. Calvin Chesnut; 30August, George W. Maxey, chief justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania about the progress of the war; James E. Shepard, president of the North Carolina College for Negroes; 1 November, Harlan F. Stone.

1944: Correspondence with the War Shipping Administration on just compensation. Legal correspondence about court administration, on the American Bar Association, pre-trial procedure. University of North Carolina trustee business. 25 January, Josiah W. Bailey about Senator Aiken's criticism of the work of the Advisory Board on Just Compensation; judges Bolitha Laws and Learned Hand on legal and personal matters; three letters of Aubrey L. Brooks, Greensboro attorney, about his biography of Judge Clark, and Parker's replies to same. Letters from Clyde R. Hoey, Louis Round Wilson, O. Max Gardner. 13 June, Cameron Morrison about his recent defeat for the Senate; November 15, Judge Waties Waring, Charleston, S.C.

16 November, Ewing Cockrell, United States Federation of Justice, about the Dumbarton Oaks agreement and enclosing an article for publication on this subject; 20 November, John Knox, judge, United States District Court, New York, about the Dumbarton Oaks agreement and the continuance of the Permanent Court of International Justice; address, "Race Relationships," by Parker, quoted in the December 1944 issue of the Church School Herald-Journal.

1945: January-June, correspondence with the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Washington, D.C., about pre-trial procedures; and with numerous judges and attorneys on the proposed revision of sections of the Judicial Code. 10 January, J. Melville Broughton, Raleigh, about Parker's service on the Expansion Program Committee of Shaw University. 19 February, John W. Clark, suggestions made to the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina relative to providing a regular income for the University. 23 February, O. Max Gardner about a recent meeting concerning the Consolidated University and other letters on the same subject. 12 May, Harry Truman, thank-you note; 14 June, Charles W. Tillett, Charlotte, concerning the Veterans Recreation Authority; letters from W. Calvin Chesnut, Louis Round Wilson, Otho B. Ross, Charlotte, about the Horace Williams Philosophical Society, which is discussed in letters scattered throughout the collection from 1940, the year of Williams's death, onward.

June-September, several hundred items related to the possibility of Parker's being appointed to a United States Supreme Court vacancy, including letters to President Truman and others in influential positions, with carbon copies of these letters to Parker. Includes letters of Willis Smith, James E. Shepard, Drew Pearson, Senator H. M. Kilgore. On 18 September, Truman appointed Senator Burton to the Supreme Court, following which Parker received many letters of sympathy on account of his failure to receive the appointment.

September-December, correspondence relative to Parker's appointment as alternate member of the Allied Military Tribunal. 1 October is the date of the first of 199 letters written by Parker to his wife while absent on his assignment with the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. This particular letter was written just before he sailed. His letters give a personal account of his life and associates, health, expeditions about Europe, and other subjects, but do not include any particular mention of his work with the Tribunal. Other correspondence of this period from judges Elliott Northcott and D. Lawrence Groner, Frank Porter Graham about his chairing the Public Hearings Committee (federal).

1946: Parker's frequent letters to his wife. Scattered legal correspondence. 13 March, O. Max Gardner; 1 April, John Lindsay Morehead about his uncle's planetarium, distress over the domestic situation in the United States; 16 May and 7 June, Quincy Wright, University of Chicago, commenting on the Nuremberg Trials, giving also an account of a conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright; 22 May, Frank Porter Graham, with comments on the situation at University of North Carolina and the nation. Charles W. Tillett, Charlotte, several lengthy letters on subjects of mutual interest, i.e., goings-on in Charlotte, the State Bar Association, legal and political matters. Other correspondents include W. Calvin Chesnut, Jacob Billikopf, Josephus Daniels.

Parker returned to the United States in October, after a year's absence, except for a brief Christmas 1945 visit to his family in Charlotte. December (also June 1947) letters from Judge F. Donald Phillips, Allied Military Tribunal, Germany, to Parker about construing the article of the Charter on Crimes against Humanity. Scattered letters, beginning during the last months of this year and continuing for a decade from Sir Norman Birkett, Buckinghamshire, England, and copies of Parker's letters to him. Birkett had also served as judge at the Nuremberg Trials.

1947: Miscellaneous legal correspondence and items concerning the Nuremberg Trials. Letters from Leland L. Tolman, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Washington, D.C., on the Special Committee of the American Bar Association on improving the administration of justice. Letters from John W. Harrelson, chancellor of North Carolina State College, about fiscal problems of that branch of the University, student admissions, and crowded facilities. Correspondence with friends made in England. 1 April, Clyde Hoey, brief letter on "appeasing Russia." 24 June, Julius C. Smith, Greesboro attorney, about Willis Smith's causing the application of I. Beverly Lake to the American Bar Association to be rejected. University of North Carolina Trustee business mostly related to the establishment of the University of North Carolina Medical School.

1948: Legal correspondence, as previously, concerning the administration of the United States courts and other legal matters federal in scope. 15 September, Douglas Jamieson, Edinburgh, Scotland, a former judge at the Nuremberg Trials.

1949: Legal correspondence of a federal nature. University of North Carolina trustee business connected with selecting a successor for Frank Porter Graham. Beginning in August, there is correspondence related to Parker's assignment to consult in Germany with regard to a system of courts there, including letters from the Office of the United States High Commissioner for Germany. Also paper entitled "Present Day Bavarian Justice and Civil Liberties," by Leonard J. Gause (carbon copy). Letters from Harry Golden, Charlotte, N.C.

Other individual items include letters of 2 March, Jacob Billikopf, Philadelphia, concerning the recent question of loyalty clearance for Frank Porter Graham and about the fight to keep costs down at University of North Carolina; 1 April, I. G. Greer declining to accept nomination as president of the University of North Carolina; 4 May, Judge Learned Hand; 25 October, Parker to D. L. Ward, Durham, with contribution to James E. Shepard Memorial Foundation; 29 December, Victor Shaw, mayor of Charlotte, N.C., note to Parker enclosing copy of letter to Walter Winchell on race relations and religious relations in Charlotte.

1950: Correspondence from attorneys, federal judges, and the officials of the American Bar Association on judicial administration. University of North Carolina trustee business, and letters in this connection from Kenneth S. Tanner, Spindale, N.C. (a few Tanner letters in other years of the 1940s). 6 September, William D. Carmichael, Jr., controller of University of North Carolina, about admitting African Americans to the University of North Carolina Law School. 2 October, Lord Hugh P. Macmillan, England, to Parker on the problems of democracy, universal suffrage, and government by the people 27 December, George Wharton Pepper, Devon, Pa. Letters also from Anna Forbes Liddell and Louis Round Wilson.

1951: Legal correspondence and University of North Carolina trustee business. A few items relating to the final work of the United States Courts of the Allied High Commission for Germany, including letter of 30 April from William Clark, chief justice, Court of Appeals for the United States Courts of the Allied High Commission on reducing the number of judges on his court. Letters of April-June to Parker concerning his decision in the Clarendon School District (S.C.) case.

17 July, Parker to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (carbon copy) about a derogatory article in Look. 1 August, George Wharton Pepper on this same subject. 10 October, Lord Hugh P. Macmillan. A few items relating to the Horace Williams Philosophical Society.

1952: Legal correspondence with individuals and representatives of the American Bar Association concerning establishing international law and an international criminal court, and with the Administrative Office of the United States Courts concerning federal courts administrative proposals and problems. Parker was strongly opposed to H.R. 287, which he viewed as unconstitutional. Correspondence with other judges on this same subject.

Small, red notebook kept by Parker on a trip to South America to visit the ambassador to Brazil Herschel V. Johnson. Also report (mimeographed copy), "Trip to Puerto Rico, South America, and Panama." Letters from judges Bolitha Laws and Learned Hand, as well as from Harry Golden, Frank Porter Graham, and William D. Carmichael.

1953: Correspondence with American Bar Association executives on the establishment of international law, admiralty rules, the Bricker Amendment. Parker strongly opposed this amendment to the Constitution, and was a leader in the fight against it. The papers for this year contain extensive correspondence with various congressmen, judges, and prominent attorneys with regard to the Bricker Amendment and the fight waged against it. Paper, "Statement of Charles W. Tillett, Charlotte, N.C., in Opposition to Proposals to Amend Constitution to Restrict Treaty-Making Power" (18 p.). Copies of letters to President Eisenhower and other government officials endorsing Parker to replace the late Chief Justice Vinson on the United States Supreme Court.

Letters concerning the appointment of Earl Warren to the position of chief justice, United States Supreme Court, and a paper on the significance of the appointment, signed by Robert N. Wilkin. Correspondents include Charles Raper Jonas.

1954: Continued correspondence about the fight against the Bricker Amendment and correspondence following its defeat with some of the principals in the fight. 1 June, Parker to Governor Luther Hodges about action of the board of trustees on University of North Carolina concerning registration of African American undergraduates. Copies of letters to President Eisenhower and others advancing Parker's name for the United States Supreme Court as successor to Justice Robert Jackson.

1, 15 November and 15 December, records of the examinations and audits of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge Don Gilliam presiding; of the United States District Court for Western District of North Carolina, Judge Wilson Warlick presiding; and of the United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina, Judge Charles C. Wyche presiding.

1955: A few letters concerning the application of the law and desegregation. Correspondence with University of North Carolina officials about University matters, including the replacement of President Gordon Gray, who had resigned to accept the federal post of secretary of the Army. Paper entitled "Race, Heredity, and Civilization" by Wesley Critz George (7 p.).

1956: Correspondence relative to selecting an acting president and later a president for the University of North Carolina. Scattered letters from solicitor general Simon Sobeloff. 26 February, Mary Alice Caudle, attached to a paper bearing testimony of Caudle, Wadesboro, N.C., 11 February 1956, concerning "the indictment in St. Louis alleging a conspiracy to defraud the Government." 29 March, Harry L. Golden to George Mitchell about citizens councils (cc to Parker).

1957: Letters concerning Parker's being presented an award by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Correspondence relating to Governor Luther Hodges's appointing Parker as a member of the North Carolina Constitutional Commission to adopt a new state constitution.

1958: Correspondence of the North Carolina Constitutional Commission.

About 400 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Speeches and drafts of speeches delivered by John Johnston Parker between 1926 and 1957. The speeches were delivered to a variety of civic and academic organizations, such as the Sons of the American Revolution and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, as well as to various professional organizations, such as chapters of the American Bar Association. Included are several speeches delivered upon Parker's return from service as an alternate at the Nuremberg Tribunal on subjects relating to the trials. The bulk of the speeches relate to technical aspects of the judicial system and the impact upon it of current events.

About 16,000 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence and other items relating to legal and administrative work of John Johnston Parker in his capacity as United States Judge for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; correspondence consisting of legal opinions, in preparation or completed, by Parker and/or other federal judges; correspondence, ca. 1925-1930, from prominent Republicans about party matters or commenting on the political situation; miscellaneous legal correspondence with lawyers throughout the South, many of whom complimented Parker on decisions or sought advice or recommendations; correspondence relating to the duties and meetings of the University of North Carolina board of trustees, of which Parker was a member for many years; correspondence with Horace Williams, Albert Coates, and other members of the University of North Carolina faculty on both personal and University business; correspondence with English friends made in Germany during the Nuremberg Trials, including Lord Hugh P. Macmillan, Geoffrey Oaksey, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, 1947 onward; and material on the Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, 1957-1958, during which Parker served as chair of the General Crusade Committee.

Among the chief correspondents are Lee S. Overman, David H. Blair, Edmund Waddill, Jr., John C. Rose, D. Lawrence Groner, Ernest F. Cochran, Isaac M. Meekins, Morris A. Soper, Elliott Northcott, Johnson J. Hayes, William E. Baker, William C. Coleman, Edwin Yates Webb, W. Calvin Chesnut, George W. McClintic, John Paul, J. Lyles Glenn, Armistead M. Dobie, Charles C. Wyche, Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, J. Waties Waring, Theron L. Caudle, Charles W. Tillett, Kenneth W. Tanner, William DeBerniere MacNider, Wesley Critz. George, George Bell Timmerman, Sterling Hutcheson, Fred M. Vinson, Robert N. Wilkin, Ashton H. Williams, Richard Hartshorne, Albert V. Bryan, and John Biggs, Jr.

About 2000 items.

Arrangement: by case number.

Memoranda, numbered 2341-7605 consecutively, relating to decisions made by Parker during the period he was judge of the Unites States Court of Appeals of the Fourth Circuit. They are brief synopses of cases, terminating with decision statements, in informal language and rarely more than one legal page in length.

About 1,200 items.

Arrangement: chronological

Correspondence and reports that grew out of the annual conferences of the judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, to discuss the business and general conditions within the Circuit.

About 400 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Briefs and opinions of three-judge courts of appeals in 17 major civil cases, several on public school integration. The judges on these three-judge district cases were John Johnston Parker and two of the following: Wilson Warlick, Don Gilliam, George Bell Timmerman, Ashton H. Williams, Waties Waring, Sterling Hutcheson, Albert V. Bryan, Elliot Northcott, and Morris A. Soper.

About 1,500 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence and reports of various committees of the American Bar Association on which John J. Parker served between 1940 and 1949, including the Special Committee on Improving the Administration of Justice; the Committee on Motion Pictures, Radio Broadcasting, and Comic Strips in Relation to the Administration of Justice of the Section of Criminal Law of the American Bar Association; the Pre-Trial Committee, and others.

About 900 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Carbon copies of typed papers attached inside folders. About two-thirds of the papers relate to the first proceedings of the War Crimes Tribunal and are Parker's own copies of the Law of the Charter, the First General Judgment, reports, statement to the press, and other papers concerned with the history of the Nazi Party and the establishment of its guilt, corporately and individually, and the codification of the international laws under which the Tribunal could function and which defined its jurisdiction. Crimes for which war criminals could be tried were defined: crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

The remaining third of the papers concern defining the principals and terms of authority of the Tribunal; minutes of meetings between the judges; memoranda on the individual prisoners; brief histories of the SS and SD, published material, and other items.

About 800 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Materials relating to committees of the Judicial Conference of the United States, on which Parker served: Committee on Federal Correction Act, 1941-1949; Committee on Punishment for Crime, 1951; Committee on Venue and Jurisdiction, 1950-1952; Committee on the Administration of the Criminal Law, 1953-1958; Committee on the Public Defender System, 1953-1958; Committee on Change of Rule 71A (Rules of Civil Procedure) 1947-1956; Committee on Appeals from Interlocutory Orders, 1952-1953.

About 2250 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Personal correspondence and other papers of John Johnston Parker chiefly consists of correspondence with his wife, children, brother, and other family members while he travelled frequently to Wilmington, Asheville, Richmond, and Baltimore on the court circuit. Correspondence concerns education and student life, especially at the University of North Carolina; politics; health; travel plans; and daily life. There are also letters discussing Parker's grief at the death of his son, John J. Parker Jr., from a car crash; Parker's possible appointment to the United States Supreme Court; and Parker's personal correspondence while he served as the American alternate judge at the Nuremberg Trials. Other papers include writings and addresses by Parker, biographical materials, a published volume of photographs titled Nurnberg, clippings, and photographs of Parker and his family.