J. Patrick Wiseman was an attorney who won several cases that expanded civil rights in the United States, particularly of focus to the LGBT community. Wiseman was known for accepting unpopular cases, including one in 1982 that forced his alma mater, Texas University, to accept a student gay rights organization. A year earlier, he won a decision that forced Texas Southern University to allow demonstrations by Iranian students. Wiseman was a former assistant Texas attorney general and a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, which gave him its lifetime achievement award in 1997. Wiseman passed away in 1998 at the age of 49.
[Source: his obituary in The Frederick News Post, a Maryland-based newspaper]
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Scope and Contents: This collection contains court case briefs fought by James (J.) Patrick Wiseman, a civil rights lawyer from Texas. The cases cover issues related to the LGBT community on college campuses, as well as students right to protest and prisoner rights when held in jail. There is also a photo of Wiseman and a VHS tape dated from his death in February of 1998.
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