William Lamson Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, Brown III (1993) Maps and Documents

Title: William Lamson Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, Brown III (1993) Maps and Documents
Subject: American Civil Liberties Union; Desegregation litigation; Demography; Lamson, William D.; Brown III; Kansas--Topeka
Description: William Lamson served as an expert witness in the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, Brown III (1993). This collection, which is part of the larger William Lamson Manuscript Collection at Jackson State University, consists of 121 oversized maps that Lamson used for research and courtroom presentations. The collection also includes thousands of pages of documents related to the case, including pre-trial motions; research materials; handwritten notes and spreadsheets; correspondence; and more.
Date: 1993
Identifier: mwchcac.ar.2022.map; mwchcac.ar.2022.Lam
Rights: All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director
Publisher: Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University
Source: William D. Lamson Manuscript Collection
Provenance: William D. Lamson

William D. Lamson
William D. Lamson was a demographer and cartographer and served as an expert witness for the NAACP, ACLU, United States Department of Justice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and numerous private plaintiffs. He was an architect/planner and demographic analyst for court cases dealing with school desegregation, voting rights, housing discrimination, and judicial redistricting. He performed three functions for his clients: director and coordinator of factual research; principal factual analyst; and evidence presentation consultant. In those capacities he provided factual and expert testimony, and graphic representations of the research results (most notably with large maps with his illustrations presented in court rooms). William D. Lamson was a native of Detroit, Michigan (b. September 14, 1941) and was living in Jackson, Mississippi at the time of his death (February 8, 1995). While in Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and the Lawrence Institute of Technology, and was also a founding faculty member of Wayne County Community College. He was also a veteran of the United States Army. Lamson worked on over 20 legal cases and served as an expert on voting rights, housing discrimination, and demographics in more than 10 other cases.