Descriptive Summary
Creator: Vernon Z. Crawford, 1919-1986
Title: Vernon Z. Crawford Records
Dates: 1956-1985
Quantity: 109.75 cubic feet
Abstract: Contains the civil rights, criminal, and family-related case files of attorney Vernon Z. Crawford, as well as papers related to the company he founded, Gulf Federal Saving and Loan, and companies and organizations he represented such as the Johnson-Allen Mortuary.
Accession: 04-09-413

Biographical Note
Vernon Crawford was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1919, and graduated from the Allen Institute. During World War II he served as a merchant seaman and in 1951 graduated from Alabama State with a bachelor of science. Crawford attended the Brooklyn Law School, from where he earned a law degree in 1956. Some of the more important law suits originated by Crawford include L. B. Sullivan v. New York Times, State of Alabama v. Willie Seals, Bolden v. City of Mobile, Birdie Mae Davis v. Mobile County School Board, and Broughton v. City of Mobile. Crawford, while working pro bono for a white Kilby [Montgomery, Alabama] prison inmate, won the first writ of coram nobis [a writ of error] in the history of Mobile County, Alabama, and one of the very first in the state of Alabama. In 1985, Crawford was among several African Americans who campaigned for a seat on the city council. Among Crawford's law partners over the years were A. J. Cooper, former mayor of Prichard, Alabama; Michael Figures, former Alabama state senator; Cain Kennedy, Mobile County Circuit Court judge; and David Coar, current U.S. District Court Judge. Crawford was a member of the National Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Southwest Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association, the YMCA, the Utopia Club, the Strikers' Social Club, and was active in the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. 

Scope and Content: 
Contains criminal, civil rights, and family-related legal case files, as well as papers related to black businesses and organizations that Crawford represented. In addition, there is information connected with the NAACP; local, state, and national bar associations; a local black nationalist group (the Neighborhood Organized Workers [NOW]), and the Reverend W. T. Phillips and the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God. Genre in the collection include campaign information, photographs, correspondence, newsclippings, billing records, speeches, financial data, and pleadings and other material typically found in lawsuit files. 

History of the Collection:  
The legal papers belonging to Vernon Zionchek Crawford were donated to the University of South Alabama Archives in July 2004. There were twenty-one metal filing cabinets, along with two cardboard filing drawers, miscellaneous bulk papers, and boxes of law books. The filing cabinets had been housed in a garage at the Crawford family home on Mon Louis Island. They were infested with insects and considerable damage had occurred especially to those files being held in the lower file drawers. The files were bug-bombed before leaving the Crawford property and bombed several other times after being transported to the USA Archives' facility.

When the collection was sufficiently stable, its files were inspected for content. Bug destruction was evident to the naked eye, but other damage was also found when the files were opened, such as faded thermal paper, rusty paper clips, and staples.

VZC's miscellaneous files were in no particular order. The law firm cases, however, were in numerical order with the year first and then a sequential case number beginning with 001, followed by the case name. While VZC changed the year order, the case number series continued in consecutive order, i.e. 56-456, 57-457. There were also a set of accident files that were labeled with an "A" followed by a number, beginning with 1 and the case name. Some accident files were put in the other office files while other accident files were placed together separately and numbered with the "A." File numbers are missing in some cases. According to conversations with lawyers who worked with VZC, they took most of their files with them when they left the firm, which may account for the missing files.

Arrangement: 
Arranged into 11 series:
1). Miscellaneous Files, 1956-1985 [3.5 cu. ft.];  
2). Judgeship, Autobiography, Campaign Information, Outside Information [.25 cu. ft.];   3). Civil Rights Cases [4 cu. ft.];  
4). Major Criminal Cases [2 cu. ft.];  
5). African-American Organizations and Corporations, 1956-1982  [2.25 cu. ft.];  
6). Bishop W. T. Phillips and the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God [1 cu. ft.];   7). Johnson-Allen Mortuary\Unity Life Insurance Company [.5 cu. ft.];  
8). Remaining Cases, 1956-1982 [90.25 cu. ft.];   
9). Billing Records, A-Z [1.5 cu. ft.];  
10). Gulf Federal Savings and Loan Bank, 1964-1982 [3.5 cu. ft.];  
11). Documents to be Filed [1 cu. ft.].

Access Restrictions: 
Prior appointment required to view this collection. The materials in series numbers 1, 2, 5, 7 are open for research. The files in series numbers 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are restricted due to privacy issues.

Preferred Citation: 
[Title of Item], Vernon Z. Crawford Records, University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, AL.

Personal correspondence related to the bar exam, establishing his practice, and good-luck letters. There are letters from various organizations asking VZC to speak, as well as a series of letters regarding David Rockefeller=s trip South and his meeting with VZC, as well as Christmas cards from Rockefeller. Also in this grouping are letters from law students soliciting clerking positions, applications from graduating law students seeking employment, and clerical applications. There are numerous AAffidavits of Character@ for local African-American law students and letters regarding the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council. Also within this series are miscellaneous correspondence from the NAACP and VZC=s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi. One group of files contains inspirational items that VZC saved to use in his speeches or for reading, as well as a number of VZC's speeches. The material in this series covers the period 1956 until 1985. It has been kept in its original order as much as possible. For example, where VZC may have set up separate files for people applying for employment by the individual's name, they have been combined into one file to save space.

In addition, this series contains photographs of VZC, some of whom came from a related collection, the Papers of John LeFlore. Those were scanned and included with this series. Other of the photos were found scattered throughout the collection and removed and placed here.

Box 1

File 1 - VZC, Personal
File 2 - Disciplinary Board of the State of Alabama
File 3 - Clerical applications for employment
File 4 - Judge Paul Brunson
File 5 - Mobile Bar Association
File 6 - Newspaper clippings
File 7 - Lawyer Referral Service
File 8 - National Bar Association
File 9 - Law student applications / Law clerks / Law school recommendations
File 10 - Brooklyn Law Review
File 11 - Blank forms
File 12 - 5^th Circuit Judicial Conference
File 13 - Elmer Jackson, NBA Goodwill Tour
File 14 - Character affidavits for Bar exams
File 15 - American Judicature Society
File 16 - Missing files material
File 17 - Boys Club
File 18 - Boston Law School
File 19 - Samuel Franklin Irby Jr.
File 20 - A. J. Cooper Jr.
File 21 - Professor David Goshien
File 22 - Robert E. Mittel
File 23 - Michael Figures
File 24 - Joseph P. Meissner
File 25 - Henry Sanders
File 26 - William Brevard Hand, Federal Judge
File 27 - Gregory B. Stein
File 28 - Law Students Civil Rights Research Council
File 29 - Theodore Lawyer
File 30 - Winfred Clinton Brown Jr.
File 31 - University of Alabama School of Law
File 32 - University of California, Hastings College of the Law
File 33 - Columbia University School of Law
File 34 - Alabama State University, Trustee
File 35 - McFadden Real Estate Company

Box 2

File 36 - Xerox copier bills
File 37 - Announcements to newspapers, etc.
File 38 - Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity
File 39 - District Court
File 40 - Travel expenses, Crawford & Blacksher
File 41 - Forms, Employee reference letters
File 42 - Leroy Stein, Esquire- Divorce, Dominican Style
File 43 - Alabama State Bar
File 44 - Gordon and Son
File 45 - Wills, 1972
File 46 - Kappa Alpha Psi, Laurel Wreath Commission
File 47 - Property Realty, Inc.
File 48 - Mobile Steamship Association-International Longshoremen Assoc.
File 49 - Court Reporter payments
File 50 - Newspapers bills
File 51 - Books (legal)
File 52 - Ace Realty
File 53 - Miscellaneous
File 54 - Azalea City Title Company
File 55 - Miscellaneous, 1971-72, 1973-74 (2 folders)
File 56 - 1981 Miscellaneous
File 57 - Appointment as District Court Judge
File 58 - Alabama Legal Defense Committee
File 59 - Social club form
File 60 - NAACP Miscellaneous
File 61 - Anonymous letters
File 62 - Miscellaneous photos of VZC
File 63 - VZC speeches and inspirations for speeches (4 folders)

Box 2-A

File 1 - National Bar Association
File 2 - Southwest Bar Association Delegates
File 3-4 - Gordon & Sons Real Estate (file 1 of 2)
File 5 - Miscellaneous 1967
File 6-8 -  Miscellaneous (multi-years) (file 1 of 3)
File 9-10 - Miscellaneous Letters, 1968 (file 1 of 2)
File 11 - 1971, Sheridan and Company
File 12 - Perry Realty Company

Box 2-B

File 1-2 - Little Realty Company (file 1 of 2)
File 3 - Executed Wills

Box 2-C

File 1-2 - Jury Charges (file 1 of 2)

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Series 2. Judgeship, Autobiography, Campaign Information, Outside Information. .25 cu. ft.

This is an artificially created series. Some of the items in it were found in other parts of the collection and removed for inclusion and others were not part of the original collection at all. This series includes forms VZC completed in pursuit of a judgeship; campaign information; oral interviews conducted by Rita Thompson in 2004-2005 with Dr. Jean Green Crawford, Gregory Stein, Councilman Fred Richardson, Frankie Fields-Smith, Larry Menefee, and Joe Meissner; and items about VZC from outside sources. There are files related to real estate companies, miscellaneous letters, other miscelleanous material, newspaper clippings about the fire bombing of VZC's home, the Obsequies from his funeral, and a copy of the Mobile Bar Association's Resolution in Memory of Vernon Z. Crawford, Sr.

Box 3

File 1 - U.S. Magistrate Judgeship information
File 2 - Mobile Council District 1 Campaign information
File 3 - Letters and responses to campaign letters
File 4 - Newspapers articles on Crawford home fire bombing
File 5 - VZC Funeral Obsequies
File 6 - Mobile Bar Association's Resolution in Memory of Vernon Z. Crawford
File 7 - Oral interviews

Series 3. Civil Rights Cases. 4 cu. ft.

Crawford was a cooperating attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. This is also an artificial series. It was created by removing all of the civil rights cases from their original locations and putting them into this series. They have been kept, however, in the original numerical sequence that VZC established. Some of the more important civil rights cases launched by Crawford or in which Crawford participated are L. B. Sullivan v. New York Times, Bolden v. City of Mobile, and Birdie Mae Davis v. Mobile County School Board. These and other cases like these helped change established Jim Crow laws. In 1979 three attorneys working with Crawford, Blacksher, Menefee, and Stein (BMS), left his firm and took a number of these cases with them. For a complete perspective on these cases, researchers should refer to the BMS Collection at USA. (Privacy issues may apply to this series)

Box 4

58-282 Sawyer et al v. City of Mobile (2 folders)
59-583 Bishop W.T. Phillips v. The Telegram
60-681 Earl D. Jones et al v. The New York Times et al
60-684 Ed Kahalley v. Conrad Deave, Alex Herman, Non-Partisan Voters' League et al
64-1865 City of Mobile v. Barbara McQueen et al
64-1906 Joe Bennett v. Gabe W. Wright
64-1987 Mrs. Theo Bernice Keller
65-2043 Leo Davis v. Mobile Rug & Shade
65-2359 Lillian S. McGill et al v. C.S. Ryals et al (4 folders)
66-2410 State of Alabama v. Fronzic Hazzard et al
66-2507 L. I. Spears Sr.

Box 5

66-2590 Bemis Bag Local #682 (3 folders)
67-2788 Helen Winston & Cora Brown
67-2810 Flossie M. Carroll
67-2819 Lola Mae Brown (2 folders)
67-2862 Ann Dashiell, US Dept. of Labor
68-3154 Samuel Paige
68-3172 City of Mobile v. Jerry Pogue et al
68-3240 George W. Preston et al v. John E. Mandeville et al
68-3362 Broughton et al (NOW) v. Gov. Brewer, State of Alabama et al (4 files)
69-5000(A) Birdie Mae Davis v. Mobile County Board of School Commissioners
69-5000(B) John LeFlore et al v. James Robinson et al (3 files)

Box 6

69-3528 S. C. Burton v. Mobile School Board
69-3595 Judas Green, United Steel Workers Union
70-3797 Archie Daniels et al v. Oaklawn Cemetery
71-4236 Lula Buford
71-4290 United States of America v. James Herbert Finley (4 files)
71-4375 Darlyn Coleman
71-4376 Ray Freeman
71-4500 Minnie Bell Perry
71-4648 Leon and George Roscoe
72-5357 Jasper Lee Simon v. International Paper Company
72-5472 Tyronne Crandall
72-5552 Sgt. & Mrs. Tyrone Mason v. Falzone Realty v. HUD Dept. (2 files)
72-5603 Handy Davis v. Edward J. Graham
73-5734 James H. Finley

Box 7

73-5890 James H. Finley (19 files)
73-5931 Link Society
73-5986 Preston Anderson et al v. Mobile County Commissioners et al
74-6466 Willie Brown v. ALCOA, Inc.
74-6471 City of Prichard v. Kenneth Lovett (aka Brother Kenneth X)
75-6876 Cannon et al v. Greyhound Bus Lines

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Series 4. Major Criminal Cases. 2 cu. ft.

VZC handled many criminal cases and appeals for criminal cases. Some of these received not only local media attention but national attention as well. Like the civil rights cases, these cases were culled from the original collection and placed in this artificial seris. Again, however, they have kept in their original numerical order. (Privacy issues may apply)

Box 8

59-573 State of Alabama v. Sam Smith (4 files)
61-988 State of Alabama v. Willie Seals (5 files)
62-1363 Clarence Crayton
64-1962 Nathaniel Taylor (9 files)
65-2338 Tyrone N. Collins
66-2605 Braggs, Bridges, Brown (6 files)
66-2619 State of Alabama v. Climmie McCants (10 files)

Box 9

70-3903 Thigpen, Finley & Beasley (2 files)
77-8682 Charles Smith (8 files)

Series 5. African-American Organizations and Corporations, 1956-1982. 2.25 cu. ft.

VZC was the attorney for numerous African-American organizations and companies such as Bronze Star Productions, Dragon's Social Club, Neighborhood Organized Workers, and Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association. Articles of Incorporation for these groups list their officers. Often the files contain membership lists as well. As before, this series was crafted but has kept the numerical sequence Crawford originally established.

Box 10

56-0015 Bronze Start Attractions
56-0081 Mobile United Citizen's Association
57-0191 Melody Social Club
57-0228 Evergreen Baptist Church
58-0323 Leatus Mystic Society
58-0327 Meadow Corp., Hillsdale Heights
59-0500 National Motor Club, Inc.
59-0503 Plateau Annexation
59-0505 Interstate Singing Association of America
59-0591 Delta Productions, Inc.
60-0653 Dragon's Social Club, Inc.
60-0698 Ebony Social Club
60-0728 Central Missionary Baptist Church
60-0828 Bluff Cemetery Association
61-0862 Cottage Hill Community Civic Organization
61-0886 M. O. Foster Partnership
61-0995 Canaan Baptist Church
61-1000 Cavalier Social Club
61-1006 Modern Men Social Club
61-1089 True Church of God in Christ
61-1090 Mt. Olive Baptist Church No. 1
62-1167 Striker's Club, Inc.
62-1199 Pathfinders, Inc.
62-1330 United Beauty Supply Co., Inc.
63-1412 North Prichard Civic Club
63-1435 Springhill Civic Community Association
63-1465 Ambassador Club
63-1525 The 18 Air Waves C.B. Club
63-1547 Wanderer's Social Club
63-1587 Mobile Medical Association
63-1638 Mobile Benevolent Association, Inc.
64-1745 Saraland Women's Club, Inc.
64-1756 Baby Grand Social Club, Inc.
64-1776 Progressive Developers of Mobile, Alabama
64-1795 Mobile Terrace Civic Club
64-1797 LaJoliBLa Chic Social Club
64-1816 Mobile Association for Retarded Children
65-2006 True Rock Holiness Church
65-2032 True Holiness Church of God
65-2051 C and G Investment Company, Inc.
65-2063 Silver Bell Social Club, Inc.
65-2074 Ridge Social Club
65-2078 Universal Mission Home, Inc.
65-2223 Pleasant View Baptist Church, Inc.
65-2242 Smart Set Social Club
65-2283 New Light Baptist Church of Whistler, Alabama
65-2319 First Methodist Church of Theodore, Alabama
66-2370 F and W Investment Company, Inc.
66-2530 Dixie Civic Club of Irvington, Alabama
67-2794 Las Vegas Social Club
67-2837 Sabre Social Club
67-3008 Twenty Men for Progress
68-3096 CALGRABRA, Inc.
68-3214 Nabers Drive Improvement Association
68-3296 Local #13857, United Mine Workers of America
68-3329 Mobile County Democratic Conference
69-3479 Cedar Grove Baptist Church

Box 11

69-3483 Clean Wash, Inc.
69-3491 Neighborhood Organized Workers
69-3545 Southwest Alabama Farmers Co-Operative Association (5 files)
69-3617 Tee-Off Record Company, Inc.
69-3619 Macedonia Baptist Church of Frisco City, Alabama
69-3708 Cunningham Electric Company
69-3730 Stanton Drugs, Inc.
70-3772 Spanish Trail General Contractors, Inc.
70-3778 STEP, Inc., C.O.R.E.
70-3787 Professional Cleaners and Laundry
70-3855 United Sewing Cooperative
70-4006 Shindig Club
70-4119 Club Twenty-One
71-4232 Agee's Trim Shop, Inc.
71-4379 Entertainment Associates, Inc.
71-4417 Fowl River Yacht Club
71-4638 Webb & Webb
71-4658 Soulful Utterings
71-4671 Javree, Inc.
71-4672 Welfare Mothers, Inc.
71-4705 American Civil Liberties Union
72-5049 Plateau Community Day Care Center
72-5351 Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association
72-5430 R & R Enterprises, Inc.
72-5493 Progressive League of Plateau, Magazine Point, Happyhill, and Surrounding Areas 72-5601 Families for Action, Inc.
72-5620 True Born Miracle Restoration Temple
72-5641 Mobile Community Development Corporation
72-5645 Club Delissa
72-5646 Progressive League of Plateau, Magazine Point, etc.
73-5692 Players Lounge, Inc.
73-5757 Little River Community Action Corporation
73-5776 Club Debonair
73-5793 ACT Educational Program
73-5826 American Federation of Teachers
73-5836 Mobile Terrace Community Service & Development Association
73-5903 People Community Hall, Inc.
73-5922 Gulf Coast Area Parent Action League, Inc.
73-5933 Kenya Club, Inc.
73-6064 Club Sidekick
73-6057 Voters Registration Organization of Prichard, Inc.
74-6105 St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church
74-6234 Trinity Garden Senior Citizens Club
74-6282 Sharpshooter's Recreation Center
74-6530 Eastern Electric Company
76-7973 Zionchek Associates, Inc.
76-7986 CLO, Inc.
77-8751 Franklin Memorial Health Center
78-9050 Harvard Study of School Desegregation
79-0031 The Inner City Social Club
80-00117 Nazaree Baptist Church No. 2
81-00296 Independent Burial Vault & Monument
80-00576 Your Neighborhood Food Store, Inc.
82-00329 Z-Tek, Inc.

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Series 6. Bishop W. T. Phillips and the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God. 1 cu. ft.

The volume of this one file, 58-295, attests to the length of the relationship between VZC and Bishop Phillips, and the quantity of work he performed for both the Bishop and the church. This series is an important source of information about the operations of an African-American church. The data in it was originally in several large expandable envelopes with individual file folders inside the envelopes. While the majority of the original file labels were either missing or unreadable, the files were kept in the original order in which they were found in the expandable folders. (Privacy issues may apply)

Box 12-A

File 1 - Unmarked folder (Contains manual for church, Altrain Enterprises Prospectus, charter for church, assorted correspondence. Phillips Printing incorporation, information on trustees, and other misc. information)
File 2 - Bishop W. T. Phillips
File 3 - Label on file missing (Contains information on Estate of Bishop Phillips)
File 4 - Bishop Phillips, Estate

Box 12-B

File 5 - Disbursements
File 6 - File name unreadable (Contains payment records and insurance appraisal information)
File 7 - Toulminville Baptist Church (marked closed on original folder)
File 8 - Toulminville Baptist Church
File 9 - 874 Davis Avenue, printing press
File 10 - Phillips
File 11 - Label missing on folder (Contains information on deed to Allenville A.O.H. Church)
File 12 - Unlabeled (Contains deeds)
File 13 - Bishop's will
File 14 - Jeraldine Phillips v. Angela Y. Phillips

Series 7. Johnson-Allen Mortuary/Unity Life Insurance Company.   .5 cu. ft.

VZC acted as the attorney for both the Johnson-Allen Funeral Home and the Unity Life Insurance Company. This series consists of files concerning insurance sold by the owners of Johnson-Allen Mortuary to the public, and deeds and lawsuits against the insurance company. Many of the folders were empty, but, because of the bulk of material found on this subject, it was pulled from its original order and placed in this series.

Box 13

File 1 - Items loose in expandable folder
File 2 - Eddie Mae Steward
File 3 - Board of Directors meetings
File 4 - Wheeler v. Unity Life Insurance (folder was empty)
File 5 - Earline Wilson (folder was empty
File 6 - Opinion, Reese and Hodges Funeral Homes
File 7 - Monroe and Clark counties property (folder was empty)
File 8 - Mortgage: Johnson Allen to Unity Life (folder was empty)
File 9 - Jackson Funeral Home, Matt Clayton (folder was empty)
File 10 - Real Property (folder was empty)
File 11 - Florence Hetherington (folder was empty)
File 12 - Comer Cottrell (folder was empty)
File 13 - Robert E. Howard (folder was empty)
File 14 - Estate of Alex Herman (folder was empty)
File 15 - Vicie Dennis (folder was empty)
File 16 - Thomas and Rose Caffey (folder was empty)
File 17 - Shermanetta Bettis (folder was empty)
File 18 - Texanna Bell, Henry Sanders, atty (folder was empty)
File 19 - Unity Life Ins. v. Reese Funeral Home (folder was empty)
File 20 - Annie Bell Askew (folder was empty)
File 21 - Jessie W. McDaniel, Jr.
File 22 - Roger A. Allen collection
File 23 - Bessie Witherspoon (folder was empty)
File 24 - Catherine Walker (folder was empty)
File 25 - David Vwanawich (folder was empty)
File 26 - Patricia Richardson (folder was empty)
File 27 - Felix Vaughn (folder was empty)
File 28 - T. N. Reed (folder was empty)
File 29 - Thelma McGrue (folder was empty)
File 30 - Lot, Marian Taylor (folder was empty)
File 31 - Robert Smith (folder was empty)
File 32 - Evelyn L. Lewis (folder was empty)
File 33 - Thelma L. Holder (folder was empty)
File 34 - Patty Mae Thomas (folder was empty)
File 35 - Mortgage and assignments of Johnson-Allen personal property, Grand Bay (folder was empty)
File 36 - Office Building (folder was empty)
File 37 - Meeting of Directors
File 38 - No label on file (contains Certificate of Incorporation, Amended Constitution and By-Laws)
File 39 - Finley's mortgage
File 40 - Alice Evans Martin
File 41 - John Wilson
File 42 - Eunice Tucker, Dept. of Industrial Relations
File 43 - Ronald and Margaret Gray
File 44 - Funeral home building
File 45 - Alex Herman
File 46 - Warren Kilpatrick
File 47 - Pedro Pointer Sr.
File 48 - Theodore R. Gordon
File 49 - Board of Directors
File 50 - Jessie Lewis
File 51 - Real Property
File 52 - Thomas & Rose Caffey
File 53 - Estate of Noah Crenshaw 

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Series 8. Remaining Cases, 1956-1982.    90.25 cu. ft.

This series is made up all remaining cases handled by VZC and other attorneys in his firm. They included divorces, name changes, criminal cases, adoptions, accidents, and many others. Privacy issues apply to this series, and, for this reason, no files have been listed here. An index to the cases is available on site. Anyone wishing to access that index must provide proof of an appropriate relationship to the requested case and sign a waiver to that effect, or meet certain other requirements. (See also Series 11)

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Series 9. Billing Records, A-Z. 1.5 cu. ft.

Some of the earliest cases Crawford handled contain small 3x5 cards with billing information on them. The remainder of the billing records have been placed in this series. It is unclear whether or not all of Crawford's clients are represented in these records. Because some of the cards display case information, access to them may be restricted for privacy reasons.

Box 103 - A to R
Box 104 - S to Z

Series 10. Gulf Federal Savings and Loan Bank, 1964-1982. 3.5 cu. ft. 

VZC was co-founder, former president, and attorney for this organization. This series contains reports, meeting information, correspondence, bylaws, applications, loan information, and financial reports. Restrictions due to privacy issues may apply to this series.

Box 105

File 1 - Supervisory report and replies, 9-9-71
File 2 - Meetings
File 3 - Building loan
File 4 - Removal (moving the physical location of the bank)
File 5 - Mortgage Changes
File 6 - Financial Reports / Budgets
File 7 - Interest Rates
File 8 - Executive Committee, Board's Policy Action
File 9 - Attorney's Clinic
File 10 - Site Committee
File 11 - By-Laws, Constitution, Organization
File 12 - Applications
File 13 - Forms
File 14 - Supervisory / Financial Letters
File 15 - Letters
File 16 - Foreclosures
File 1B - 75-338 Glaude et al vs. Gulf Federal Savings and Loan

Box 106

File 1 - May, June 1964
File 2 - Gulf Federal, Lawsuits
File 3 - July 1964
File 4 - August 1963
File 5 - September 1964
File 6 - October 1964
File 7 - November 1964
File 8 - January 1965
File 9 - February 1965
File 10 - March 1965
File 11 - April 1965
File 12 - May 1965
File 13 - June and July 1965
File 14 - August and September 1965
File 15 - October 1965
File 16 - November and December 1965
File 17 - March 1966
File 18 - April 1966
File 19 - June 1966
File 20 - July 1966
File 21 - August 1966
File 22 - September 1966
File 23 - October 1966
File 24 - May 1966
File 25 - December 1966
File 26 - January and February 1967
File 27 - March 1967
File 28 - April and May 1967
File 29 - June and July 1967
File 30 - August and September 1967
File 31 - October 1967
File 32 - December 1967
File 33 - January and February 1968
File 34 - March and April 1968
File 35 - May 1966
File 36 - May and June 1968
File 37 - July and August 1968
File 38 - September, October, November 1968
File 39 - December 1968 to January 1967
File 40 - February, March, April, May 1969
File 41 - June, July, August 1969
File 42 - September and October 1969
File 43 - November and December 1969

Box 107

File 1A - September and October 1970
File 1B - April 1971
File 2 - January and February 1972
File 3A - January 1973
File 3B - January through April 1973
File 4 - January and February 1974
File 5 - March and April 1974
File 6 - May, June, July 1974
File 7 - August to December 1974
File 8 - January to March 1975
File 9 - April to June 1975
File 10 - November and December 1975
File 11 - January to March 1976
File 12 - April to June 1976
File 13 - January to March 1979
File 14 - April to June 1979
File 15 - January to March 1980
File 16 - April to September 1980
File 17 - October to December 1980
File 18 - January to April 1981
File 19 - May to July 1981
File 20 - August to December 1981
File 21 - January to August 1982
File 22 - Miscellaneous items found loose in filing cabinet drawer
File 23 - Audited Financial statements
File 24 - Gulf Federal Savings (61-1113)

Box 108

File 1 - George Dixon
File 2 - Lawyer Referral Service
File 3 - Annual Meetings, 1965-1966-1967
File 4-6 - Federal Examination Report

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Series 11. Documents to be Filed. 1 cu. ft.

This material was found on Crawford's desk at the time of his death. It contains documents from cases that were in progress, being revisited, etc. Privacy issues do apply to much of the material in this series. Thus, access to this series is limited and researchers are urged to read the conditions for access posted with Series 8.

Box 109

File 1-2 - Firm Finances, Bills, overdue notices, etc.
File 3 - Frank Wright (see 81-00225)
File 4 - Privacy Issues
File 5 - Envelope Labeled "Return to Ms. Mary Spencer"
File 6-12 - Privacy Issues
File 13 - Mobile Housing Rehabilitation Office Correspondence with VZC
File 14 - Privacy Issues
File 15 - Firm Finances, Receipts and Invoices
File 16 - Privacy Issues
File 17 - "Victory Speech," no name given
File 18-19 - Privacy Issues

Box 110

File 1-3 - Privacy Issues
File 4 - See 78-9035
File 5 - See 78-9202
File 6 - See 78-9011
File 7 - See 71-4695
File 8 - See 73-5848
File 9 - See 63-1462
File 10 - See 58-375
File 11 - See 78-8987
File 12 - See 78-9129
File 13 - See 77-5881
File 14 - See 76-7803
File 15 - See 84-00468
File 16 - See 77-8152
File 17 - See 77-8575
File 18 - See 78-8947
File 19 - See 82-00411
File 20 - See 78-9269
File 21 - See 77-8871
File 22 - See 77-8521
File 23 - See 74-6147
File 24 - See 76-7732
File 25 - See 72-5492
File 26 - See 72-5402
File 27 - See 72-5251
File 28 - See 72-5471
File 29 - See A-559
File 30 - See A-548
File 31 - See A-377
File 32 - See A-493
File 33 - See A-067
File 34 - Marked "Files cannot be Found"
File 35 - See 73-6008
File 36 - Miscellaneous Cases