Scott J. Rafferty (#192)

An Inventory of His Personal Papers
1974-1976
At the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Series Description
 

Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1974-1976
Student, Princeton University. Researcher on civil rights and the Department of Justice. Research material: includes notes of interviews with Justice Department officials, correspondence with government agencies, and copies of FBI documents.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
According to the deed of gift signed July 1976, copyright of these materials has been assigned to the United States of America. The donor has retained copyright of a portion of the materials. Researchers may have access to these papers but any researcher wishing to quote, cite or paraphrase the text may do so only with the donor's written permission. Please see the reference archivist for further assistance.

Copyright
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Provenance
Received from Scott J. Rafferty of Princeton, New Jersey in July 1976 (1976-032); March 1981 (1981-053); May 1981 (1983-051) and September 1981 (1998-078).

Extent
About 1500 items (6 linear feet, 2 linear inches ; 7.0 cubic feet)

Date Opened
ca. 1982

Processed by
Megan Desnoyers

Revisions
Finding aid updated by Jennifer Miller, April 2003

Encoded by
Jennifer Miller

Related Collections
Robert F. Kennedy Papers, John F. Kennedy Library
Burke Marshall Papers, John F. Kennedy Library

Scott J. Rafferty (#192)

Biographical Note
Born in Evanston, Illinois, on November 24, 1955, Scott Joseph Rafferty earned his A.B. from Princeton University in 1976. While at Princeton, Rafferty completed two original research papers on the Kennedy Administration, Federal Protection of Civil Rights Against Acts of Violence and Civil Rights Policy Making in the Kennedy Administration, along with a senior thesis entitled Building the Consensus: Civil Rights and the Department of Justice 1961 - 1963. A Rhodes scholar in 1977, Rafferty went on to earn his law degree from Yale University in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Baillol College, Oxford in 1986. Rafferty later served as director of telecommunications for the State of Maryland and is author of American Dilemma: Telecommunications Policy in the U.S. (1984).

Collection Overview
Correspondence, oral history interviews, drafts, articles, F.B.I. documents, reports, note cards and other material pertaining to Rafferty's research on the civil rights movement, the Democratic party and the Democratic national convention. Includes copies of papers completed by Rafferty while a student a Princeton, personal oral histories completed as research for his senior thesis and extensive copies of F.B.I. civil rights materials obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Material is organized into one series entitled Research Material is has retained its original folder titles and arrangement.

Series Description

Research Material.
About 1500 items.
Arrangement: by subject.

Correspondence, oral history interviews, drafts, articles, F.B.I. documents, reports, note cards and other material pertaining to Rafferty's research on the civil rights movement, the Democratic party and the Democratic national convention. Includes copies of papers completed by Rafferty while a student a Princeton, oral histories completed as research for his senior thesis and extensive copies of F.B.I. civil rights materials obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Material has retained original folder titles and arrangement with interviews in alphabetical order and correspondence, F.B.I. material and Democratic party reform material in chronological order. Civil rights division material is arranged by type and subject.