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Harriet Bouslog (2003-01-09)
About this film
Interview with Samuel P. King, former United States Chief District Judge for the District of Hawaii & legal contemporary of Harriet Bouslog, recorded on January 9, 2003 for Biography Hawai'i: Harriet Bouslog. Topics include the state of the legal profession in Hawai'i around the time of Harriet's first arrival to the state in 1939; the impact on the local legal community after martial law was declared in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor; the changes in Hawai'i's judicial & legal environment Harriet found upon returning to work for the ILWU in 1946; the difficulties that she encountered in the legal system when defending laborers; the response of the local legal community to Harriet's work; what she was like in court; the common public perception of her politics; the general community response to the Reinecke case; what made her successful as a lawyer; why she was disliked & King's time as the President of the Hawai'i Bar Association in the 1950s.
Directors & creators
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Biography Hawaiʻi, Woman lawyers -- Hawaii, Communism -- Hawaii, Labor movement -- Hawaii, Labor and laboring classes -- Hawaii, Labor lawyers -- Hawaii
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