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Oral History of Judge Richard Roberts
Index
A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920 to 1936 (Roberts, Johnson
and Dunn), 13
A&T See North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Abdullah v. Bush (case), 278
Abramoff, Jack, 274-75
ABSCAM, 116, 150, 239, 300
affirmative action, 98, 104, 114, 127
African American students, 50-51, 79, 113-14
African socialism, 82, 90-91
Ainsworth, Marilyn, 100, 107
Alaimo, Anthony, 347
Alito, Samuel, 271
apartheid, 90
Arrington, Al, 232
Ashcroft, John, 257, 259
ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), 250
Attica Correctional Facility, 101, 151, 300
Atwood, Jim, 182-83
Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (case), 267-68
Baeza, Della Britton, 121-22
Bakke (case), 98, 104, 127
Ball, Antwuan, 271-72
BALSA (Black American Law Students Association), 117, 121, 123-26
Barr, Robert, 261
Barr, William, 299
Barry, Christopher, 227
Barry, Marion, 218-22, 227-28, 230-31, 233
arrest, 224
Civil Rights Movement, 227
drug use, 222, 226
trial, 225-233
Vista Hotel, 223, 228-29
Bates, Bob, 136
Belafonte, Harry, 25
Bell, Derrick, 345
Benner, Harry, 210
Berger, Bruce, 339
Berger, Vivian Olivia, 113
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Berney, Arthur, 107
Bey, Norman, 294
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), 267-68, 271
Black Power movement, 50
Blackann, Trevor, 274
Bledsoe, Raymond, 284-85
Bodett, Tom, 170, 354
Bond, Kit, 258
Boulé See Roberts, Richard – Personal
Bragg, Beverly, 64
Breyer, Stephen, 271
Britt, Earl, 343
Britton, Della See Baeza, Della Britton
Bruce, Blanche, 215
Budd, Wayne, 100, 107
Burriss, Caleb Gray, 275
Butterfield, Alexander, 138
Cafritz, Peggy Cooper, 125
Cain, Gloria Asanthia, 336
Cain, Larry, 336
Campiglia, Louis, 45
Carr, Carson, 64
Carr, Robert Allan, 336-39
Carter, Jimmy, 253
Castro, Julián, 294
Chambers, Julius, 125
Charles Hamilton Houston Legal Preparation Institute, 177, 361
Church Arson Prevention Act, 250, 302
church burnings, 152, 249-50, 302
Church of God and True Holiness Principles, 336
Chutkan, Tanya, 294
CIA, 278
Cities in Schools, 105
Citizens United, 269-71
Citizens United v. FEC (case), 269-71
civil rights, abusing, 352
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 18
Civil Rights Movement, 227, 234
Clarke, David A. District of Columbia Law School, 117
Clarke, David C. (“Atiba”), 116
Clarke, Fitz, 349
CLEO See Roberts, Richard – Personal
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Clinton, Hillary, 269, 271
Clinton, William (Bill), 168, 238, 252-53, 256, 265, 351
Cobb, Charles, 215
Cold Case Act, 285
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), 138
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, 210
Conroy, John, 343
conspiracy against rights, 301
Conyers, Jimmy, 338-40
Cooper, A.J., 124, 125
Cooper, Charles, 352
Cooper, Christopher “Casey”, 294
Cooper, George, 128
Copland, Ann, 275
Cornin, Bernard, 69
Cropper, Theresa, 125
Cross Poultry Company, 337-38, 340
Cullen, Countee, 6, 34
Daddy Grace See Graca, Marcelino
Davis, Linda, 244, 331
Days, Drew, 151, 300-01, 320, 344-45, 361-62
Dean, John, 138
DeGraffenreidt, James, 133
deprivation of rights under color of law, 301, 331-34
diGenova, Joseph (Joe), 218-19
discrimination and racism
church burnings, 249
Black Secret Service agents suing for racial discrimination, 277
District of Columbia, 221, 240
Misdemeanor Streamlining Act, 166, 315-16
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 118, 179, 208
District of Columbia Superior Court, 133, 238, 244, 281, 295
Dixon, Ron, 215
Dobinski, Karla, 250-51
DOJABA See Roberts, Richard – Professional
Dowd, John, 201
Doyle, Deborah Long, 215, 240
Dragon, Carmen, 45
Eli Lilly
Oraflex (Benoxaprofen), 184
Elimu Tours, 82
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Ellington, Edward Kennedy (Duke), 26
Ellis, Rehema, 97
Ervin, Sam, 138
FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act), 247-49
Fair Employment Litigation (Cooper, Rabb, and Rubin), 128
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963, 324-25
FBI, 141-42, 145, 155, 200, 222-24, 250, 283, 304-05, 328, 333-34, 346, 348-50
Federal Election Commission (FEC), 267-68, 270
Feingold, Russ, 267-69
Fields, Rhonda, 221, 234
Fields, Theodore, Jr., 322, 324
Fields, Theodore, Sr., 323
Flynt, Larry, 324
Flug, Jim, 139
forceful intimidation in fair housing, 346
Francis, Valera, 69
Franklin, Joseph Paul, 321-24
Franklin, Shirley, 67
federally protected activities, 152, 190, 301-02, 321-24, 346
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, 247, 302
Friedman, Paul, 294
Gardner, Bill, 343-44
Gates, Donald, 281
Gates v. District of Columbia (case), 281-83
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 112-13, 186, 271
Giuliani, Rudolph W., 189-90, 202
Gore, Al, 264-65
Gorelick, Jamie, 245
Gotti, John, 62
Graca, Marcelino (“Daddy Grace”), 214
Green, Joyce Hens, 210
Greensboro, North Carolina, 6, 17, 20-23
Guinier, Lani, 345
Gulaid, Jama, 84
Haji, Abdillahi, 82-85
Haney, Franklin, 264-65
Harlem, 2, 6, 15, 16, 20, 21, 31, 41, 129
Harvard Plan, 98, 104
Harvey, G. Michael, 294
Hatch, Orrin, 257
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Hayes, Lola, 26
Hickey, Pat, 151, 300
High School of Music and Art. See Roberts, Richard – Personal – Fiorello H. LaGuardia High
School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Hodges, Norman, 81, 101
Hirni, James, 274
Hodges, Norman, 101
Hoffinger, Adam, 191
Holder, Eric, 39, 114-15, 118-20, 123, 150, 212-13, 217, 238-39, 299
ABSCAM, 116, 150, 239, 300
Attorney General, 39, 114, 123
District of Columbia Superior Court, 238
Holley-Walker, Danielle, 294
Hoover, J. Edgar, 141-42, 350
Horowitz, Michael, 333
housing rights, 346
Inc Fund, 151, 301
involuntary servitude and slavery, 152, 301, 324, 329, 336, 339-43
Iverson, Bill, 176, 182-83, 360
Jackson, Darryl, 221
Jackson, Greg, 215
Jackson, Thomas Penfield, 226, 296
Jamaica, West Indies, 206
Jarrett, H. Marshall, 217
Jeffries, June, 212-14
Jenkins, Bruce, 322-23
Jet (magazine), 212
Jim Crow and segregation practices, 3, 8, 16-19, 29, 172, 330, 356
Johnson, Brenda, 215
Johnson, Jeh, 277
Johnson, Norma Holloway, 237, 260
Johnson, Thomas, 13
Johnson, Wyneva, 215
Jones, Kaidi Bowden, 97
Jones, Willie Thomas, 333-34
Jordan, Gary, 208
Jordan, Vernon, 324
Just The Beginning Foundation, 288
Katz, Harold, 182
Katz, Robert, 182
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Kelley, Clarence, 141-42
Kennedy’s vote, 142
Kennedy, Anthony, 271
Kennedy, Edward (Ted), 23, 28, 47, 136, 139-40, 142, 145-46, 257
thoughts on selection of presidential advisors, 142-43
Kennedy, John
assassination, 283
Kenya, 82-90, 92, 94, 98, 100, 102
Kenyatta, Jomo, 87-89
King, Coretta Scott, 284
King, Martin Luther, 25, 283-84, 349-50
King, Susan, 331
Ku Klux Klan, 321, 346-47
Kuhlik, Bruce, 179, 185, 363
La Pierre, Bruce, 128, 130
Lamberth, Royce, 211, 270
Landers, Bill, 222
Lederman, Robert, 263
Lederman v. United States (case), 263
Lee, Debra, 43
Leon, Richard, 268
Leonard, Walter, 98, 104-06
fetish for preparation, 99, 106
Lewis, Charles, 232
Little Rock Nine, 60
Lynchburg, Virginia, 20
Maasai (ethnic group), 94-96
Marcy, Eric, 210
Martin, Billy, 220
Martin, David, 322, 324
Mason, Ron, 70
McCain, John, 267
McCann, Vonya (wife), 204-07
McConnell v. the Federal Election Commission (case), 267-70
McKay, Jim, 178, 363
McKinney, Rufus, 294
McMurren, Lionel, 30
Meese, Ed, 352
Mehta, Amit, 294
Metropolitan Opera, 23, 29, 40
Metropolitan Police Department, 223, 232, 276, 318
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Misdemeanor Streamlining Act, 166
Moore, John, 119-20, 150, 239, 299
Moss, Randolph, 294
Motley, John, 43
Motley, Thomas, 43, 212
Mueller, Robert (Bob), 212-14, 241, 296
Mundy, Ken, 227, 231-32
Music and Art High School See Roberts, Richard W. – Personal, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High
School of Music and Art and Performing Arts
Nairobi, Kenya, 82-83, 85-87, 89, 92
New York Times, 128, 130
Newman, Theodore, 205, 208
NFL players’ protests, 88
Nixon, Richard, 138, 141-42
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 253-57
Nutri-System, 182-83, 187
class action suit, 183
trade dress infringement, 176, 182-83, 360
Nyerere, Julius, 82, 91
Obama, Barack, 255-56, 260, 286, 294
Ogletree, Charles, 124, 205, 208
Ohlson, Kevin, 295
Olson, Paul, 54
Oraflex See Eli Lilly
Organization of African States, 91
Pan American Airlines, 27, 181-82
Parker, Kellis, 111, 113
PDS See Roberts, Richard – Professional
peonage, involuntary servitude, 301-02, 324-30, 336-43
Perez, Tom, 295
Perry, Matthew J., 330
Phillips, Channing, 241, 294
police brutality, 88, 152, 189-90, 301
Pooler, Rosemary, 257-58
Pratt, John, 210
Pratt, Sharon, 117
Princeton University, 121, 135-36
Rabb, Harriett, 113, 128-30
Randolph, A. Randolph, 270
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Rankin, Zinora Mitchell, 221
Reagan, Ronald, 120, 218, 240
Reno, Janet, 244-45
Retchin, Judy, 222, 228, 233
Revercomb, George, 210
Reynolds, William Bradford, 352
Rhimes, Shonda, 221
See also Scandal
Richey, Charles, 252, 256
Rinzel, Dan, 343-44
Roberts, Angeline Tynes (mother), 2, 4, 17, 19-23, 29-30, 35, 40-41, 56, 207
paralegal, 29
Metropolitan Opera, 23
teacher, 30
Roberts, Beverly (father), 1-10, 12, 15-17, 20, 30-35, 176
Jim Crow, 3, 8
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 6
printing press, 1, 6-7
Renaissance man, 3, 7
South Carolina, 3, 8, 13, 15, 19, 35
Roberts, Cornelius (uncle), 13
Roberts, John, 271
Roberts, Richard (paternal grandfather), 9
glass plate negatives, 11
photographer, 10
Roberts, Richard W. – Personal
Africare, 78, 79
athletics, sports and recreation, 45
cycling, 46-47
track, 49
Baisley Park, 47
Bobby (cousin), 15, 18, 37
birth, New York Hospital in Manhattan, 1
Black Law Students Association, 117-18, 121, 123-27
Boston College Law School, 98-99, 103-04, 107
Boulé, 105
church, 35-37
acolyte, 36
CLEO (Council on Legal Education Opportunity Summer Legal Institute), 98, 100, 102-
06, 110, 134
Columbia Law School, 70, 72, 97, 98, 101, 110, 111, 113, 115-18, 121-29, 131-33,
149,150, 173, 212, 238-39
Columbia University, 70, 119, 121, 127, 129-30
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Columbia, South Carolina, 1, 3, 8-13, 15, 17- 21, 35
computer programming, 146-48
Concerned Black Men, 177, 361
Cornell University, 63-64, 72
experience in predominantly white elementary school, 58
Experiment in International Living (World Learning), 81-82, 101
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, 30, 35, 40-42,
49-58, 75-77
Harlem, 1-2, 6, 15, 16, 20, 21, 31, 41, 129
High School of Music and Art See Roberts, Richard – Personal – Fiorello H. LaGuardia
High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Human Rights Law Review, 126
Jim Crow, 3, 8, 16-19, 29, 172, 330, 356
Kenya, 82, 85-87, 89-90, 92, 94, 98, 100-02
mathematics, 33, 53-54, 57-58, 101, 136
Motel 6, 170, 354
music, 75-76
All City High School Choir, 43
American Youth Performs, 44
Carnegie Hall performance, 44
piano, 40-41, 57, 67, 76
theory and composing, 76
New York State Regents Scholarship and Scholar Incentive Award, 62-63
Princeton University, semester exchange, 121, 135-36
computer programmer at educational Testing Service, 146-48
Queens, 2-4, 7, 20, 30, 35, 39-40, 44, 46-47, 55, 57, 61, 64, 67, 131, 238
Jamaica, 2, 15, 20, 41, 67, 131, 135, 238
John Adams High School, 40-41, 45, 52, 77
Robert H. Goddard Junior High School 202, 30, 39, 61
retirement, 297
Saugerties, New York, 2-5
School for International Training, See Experiment in International Living
Van Wyck Gardens, 2
Vassar College, 35, 63, 65-74, 78-80, 82, 92, 135, 146
Roberts, Richard W. – Professional
bankruptcy fraud, 235-37
Barry trial, 229-33
campaign finance issues and reform legislation, 264, 266-67
Charles Hamilton Houston Legal Preparation Institute, 177
Chief Civil Rights Division Criminal Section, 246-47, 251
Chief of the Criminal Section, 244, 331, 343-44
Church Arson Task Force, 250
civil litigation, 132, 166-67, 173, 176, 179, 185-87, 195, 350, 357, 360, 364
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CLEO Hall of Fame, 100, 106
commitment to public service, 134, 149-50, 239, 298-99
Council for Court Excellence Board, 288
Covington & Burling, 116, 121, 132, 167-69, 172-79, 181, 183-88, 205, 207, 243, 350-
52, 356-58, 360-64
criminal litigation, 173, 186-88
discovery, 130, 138, 162-64, 176, 178, 277, 319, 361-62
diversity in law clerk hiring, 287-88
D.C. Circuit Court Security Committee, 295
D.C. Circuit Historical Society Board, 295
D.C. Circuit Judicial Council, 295
DOJABA (Department of Justice Association of Black Attorneys), 211, 214
First Amendment cases, 261-64
Guantanamo detainees, 278
Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, 205, 208
Judicial Conference of the United States, 295
Kennedy internship, 137-45
marijuana legalization initiative, 261
New York bar, 154, 156
peonage cases, 314, 317, 327
police misconduct cases, 316, 320, 335
prosecutorial discretion, 190, 198, 225, 306
Public Defender Service, 151, 154, 163, 300, 303
qualities of a good prosecutor, 252
Share The Wealth program, 287
Steptoe and Johnson, 132-33, 149, 298
three-drug protocol for death penalty cases, 280
U.S. Attorney’s Office (District of Columbia), 156, 209, 216-17, 240, 264
discovery, 130, 138, 162-64, 176, 178, 277, 319, 361-62
drug arrests, 158-59, 308-09
General Crimes Section, 210, 211, 217, 221
Misdemeanor Trial Section, 156-57, 162, 166, 216, 306, 311, 316-17, 320
Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney, 238-39, 241, 243
Public Corruption Section, 221
white collar crime, 200-01, 209-10, 234, 274, 289
U.S. Attorney’s Office (Southern District of New York), 188-90, 209, 212, 335
General Crimes Section, 190-97
White Plains branch, 199-203
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 293
Chief Judge, 125, 293-94, 296
judgeship confirmation hearing, 256-59
U.S. Department of Justice
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Criminal Section, See Roberts, Richard W. Professional, Criminal Section of the
Civil Rights Division
Chief, 246-47, 251
General Attorney, 154-56, 173, 304-05, 357
honors program, 119, 152-53, 302
Trial Attorney, 154-156, 304-05
Roberts, Victoria, 258
Roberts, Wilhelmina Pearl Williams (paternal grandmother), 8, 12, 15-16, 19
Robertson, James, 294
Rogers, Reginald, 275
Rosenstein, Rod, 241
Roundtree, Dovey, 234
Royals, Clyde Wayne, 346-47
Rubin, Howard, 128, 130
Sack, Robert, 257-58
Samber, Billy, 46
Samuels, Carol, 55, 58, 60
Scalia, Antonin, 271, 283-86, 295
Scandal (television show), 221
Schafer, Jack, 178, 363
Schmuckler, Howard, 275
Schneider, Pauline, 253
School for International Training, 81, 101
segregation and desegregation, 16-18, 120, 330 See also Roberts, Richard W. – Personal – Jim
Crow
Sentelle, David, 268
sentencing guidelines, 196, 210, 226, 273-74, 290
Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, 210
Shaw, Nina, 122-23
Shaw, Ted, 97, 118, 124
Shorter, Dorie, 136
sisters, 1, 2, 5, 17, 20, 27, 33, 37, 47, 137, 169, 219, 353
slavery, 152, 301, 324, 336, 342
criminalized kidnapping, 342
Slomowitz, Louis, 201-02
Smith, Judy, 221
Smith, Patricia Campbell, 295
Smith, William French, 323, 352
Smoak, Olga, 68
Snarr, Steve, 322-23
Sobin, Dennis, 235
Sotomayor, Sonia, 271
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South Carolina, 3, 8-10, 12-19, 35, 330, 336
South Carolina State University, 10
Stamps, J.C., 276
Stephens, Jay, 208, 217-21, 234
Stevens, John Paul, 271
Sullivan, Emmet G., 296
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 43, 99, 108, 116, 157, 209, 212-13, 215-16, 221-22,
238, 240, 244, 281, 295, 306, 331
Supreme Court of the United States, 18, 98, 104, 127, 267-71, 285, 295, 305
Susman, Tommy, 139
Sykes, Alvin, 284-85
Tabak, Michael, 199-200
Tanzania, 82, 86-87, 90-92, 94, 97
Tapp, Barry, 215
Taylor, Garfield, 275
Temple, Donald, 177, 361-62
Thomas, Clarence, 271
Thomas, Jack, 215
Thompson, Phyllis, 179, 363
Three Lively Arts, 76
Till, Emmett, 285, 348
Trump, Donald, 299, 349-50
impeachment, 299
Turner v. D.C. Bd. of Elections (case), 261-63
Tynes, Joseph Walter (maternal grandfather), 22
Tynes, Margaret (aunt), 25-27
Tynes, Morris H. (uncle), 24
United Airlines, 181-82
United Church of Prayer, 215
United States Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division, 119, 150-54, 156, 166, 172-74, 195, 239, 244, 246-48, 250, 261,
284-86, 299-303, 306, 316, 318, 324, 331, 348, 352, 356-58
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 125
United States v. Antwuan Ball (case), 271-74
United States v. Barry (case), 225-33
United States v. Trevor Blackann (case), 274
United States v. Cain (case), 336-41
United States v. Ann Copland (case), 275
United States v. Fraser Verrusio (case), 275
United States v. Franklin (case), 321-24
United States v. Gray-Burriss (two cases), 275-76
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United States v. Harris (case), 341-43
United States v. James Hirni (case), 274
United States v. Jones (case), 271-74
United States v. Lloyd (case)), 234-35
United States v. Reginald Rogers (case), 275
United States v. Howard Schmuckler (case), 275
United States v. Sobin (case), 235-38
United States v. J.C. Stamps (case), 276
United States v. Garfield Taylor (case), 275
United States v. Wilson (case), 324, 327-30
University of South Carolina, 13
University of the District of Columbia Law School, 116-117
Vassar College, 35, 63, 65-74, 78-80, 82, 92, 135, 146
black studies curriculum, 74, 92
computer courses, 146-47
euro-centric curriculum, 70
Verrusio, Fraser, 275
Vista Hotel, 223, 228-29
sting, 223
See also Barry, Marion
Walton, Reggie, 293
Ward, Hiram, 340
Warren, Dennis, 341
Warren, Richard, 341
Washington Post, 184
Washington, Eric, 118, 121
Washington, Paula, 57
Watergate, 138, 141
Wells, Ted, 265-66
White, Branda Baldwin, 215
White, Ronnie, 258
Whitlow, James, 120, 239
Williamson, Tom, 167-68, 350-51, 362
Wilson, Barbara, 327, 330
Wilson, Larry, 327
Winfield, Sue Holmes, 99, 108
Wisconsin Right to Life, 268-69
Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission (case), 268-69
Yette, Fred, 215
Yette, Sam, 215-16
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