William E. Ready Papers, 1960s-2000s

Collection Number: 5654

Collection Title: William E. Ready Papers, 1960s-2000s

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Size	40.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 8000 items)
Abstract	The collection of attorney William E. Ready, Sr., of Meridian, Miss., contains correspondence, research files, notes, newspaper clippings, case files, client files, pleadings, summaries, briefs, motions, and other court documents. Materials reflect Ready's law practice and prominent cases on which he worked. Cases represented in the collection pertain to civil rights for prisoners, workers, and mental health patients, among others. Topics addressed include racial discrimination in the workplace, workers' compensation, wrongful death following a mass shooting in the workplace, environmental conditions in prisons, jail fees, antitrust legislation, and the Mississippi State Department of Mental Health. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection.
Creator	Ready, William E.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the William E. Ready Papers #5654, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

This summary description was created in February 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith