Inventory of the Elliott Goldstein Papers, 1906-2005

Collection Number 5226

Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact Information:

Manuscripts Department

CB#3926, Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

Phone: 919/962-1345

Fax: 919/962-3594

Email: mss@email.unc.edu

URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

Descriptive Summary

Repository

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

Creator

Goldstein, Elliott, 1915-

Title

Elliott Goldstein Papers, 1906-2005

Call Number

5226

Language of Materials

Materials in English

Extent

Items: About 30,000

Linear Feet: 30.5

Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access

This collection has restrictions to access in Series 3. Please see details below or contact the Manuscripts Department for more information.

Usage Restrictions

RESTRICTION: Case files are closed until 70 years after the last date of material related to the case. See Series 3 for details.

Acquisitions Information

Given by Elliott Goldstein of Atlanta, Ga., in July 2005 (Acc. 100148).

Processing Information

Processed by: Valerie Gillispie, December 2005

Encoded by: Valerie Gillispie, December 2005

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elliott Goldstein Papers #5226, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

American Jewish Committee.

Asia--Description and travel.

Atlanta Historical Society.

Atlanta History Center.

Atlanta Jewish Federation.

Chatham Valley Foundation, Inc.

Flood, Daniel J.

Eilberg, Joshua.

Europe--Description and travel.

Goldstein, Elliott, 1915-

Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

Jews--Southern States.

Lawyers--Georgia--History.

National Steel Corporation.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy.

United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 589th.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

United States--Description and travel.

Vermont American Corporation.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.

Yale Law School--Alumni and alumnae.

Biographical Note

Elliott Goldstein was born in Atlanta, Ga., on 23 October 1915. He attended the Georgia School of Technology and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Georgia in 1936. Goldstein then attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1939.

Goldstein began working as an associate at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy in 1939, a law firm in which his father, Max Goldstein, was a founding partner. From 1941 until 1946, during World War II, Goldstein served in the United States Army, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenent Colonel by 1945. He fought in a number of major campaigns in France in 1944 and 1945. Following the end of the war, Goldstein served as Assistant to the Director, Property Control Division, of the Allied Control Council of Berlin.

In 1946, Goldstein returned to Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, where he was named partner. He remained with the law firm for almost 50 more years, retiring in 1995. During that time, Goldstein specialized in corporation and securities law. He opened a Washington office of the law firm in 1977. Goldstein held memberships and participated in many legal organizations, including the Atlanta Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Within the American Bar Association, he served on the Council of the Section of Corporation, Banking and Business; the House of Delegates; the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securies; the Ad Hoc Committee on the ALI Corporate Governance Project; and the Tax Section. He also wrote and lectured frequently on legal topics.

Goldstein was active in a number of civic, cultural, political, and religious organizations, including the Atlanta Historical Society, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the United Way, Central Atlanta Progress, the High Museum of Art, the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Atlanta Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Citizens Planning Group for Social Services Atlanta, Atlanta Action Forum, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the Chatham Valley Foundation, the Standard Club, the Commerce Club, the Atlanta Opera, and the Kiwanis Club.

Goldstein married Harriet Weinberg on 24 October 1942. They had two daughters, Lillian Friedlander and Ellen Goldstein.

Collection Overview

The Elliott Goldstein Papers consist of materials related to Elliott Goldstein's personal life and his professional career. Correspondence, writings, speeches, case files, firm files, investment files, organization materials, and personal materials are included.

Series 1, Personal Correspondence, is non firm-related correspondence sent to and from Goldstein's law firm office. Series 2, Writings and Speeches, consists of articles, papers, and lectures about legal topics and other issues.

The third series, Legal Career, includes case files and firm files. The case files include Goldstein's work as Special Counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in cases involving Congressman Daniel Flood and Congressman Joshua Eilberg. It also includes files for work done on behalf of the National Steel Corporation and the Vermont American Corporation.

Series 4, Business Ventures and Investments, includes Goldstein's land investment in Georgia with Edward Porter, as well as several other investments. Series 5, Organizations, includes materials from religious organizations (specifically, Jewish orgnaizations), charitable organizations, and cultural organizations in which Goldstein was involved. These include the American Jewish Committee, Atlanta Historical Society (later the Atlanta History Center), Atlanta Jewish Federation, Chatham Valley Foundation, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

The sixth series, Personal Materials, includes the itineraries and other records of Goldstein's travel abroad and United States travel. It also includes information about his participation in Yale Law School alumni activities, and his service in World War II. Included is a book edited by Goldstein, On the Job Training: An Oral History of the Battle of Parker's Crossroads and of the Fate of Those Who Survived, the 589th Group.

Arrangement of Collection

1. Personal Correspondence
2. Writings and Speeches
3. Legal Career
3.1. House of Representatives Committee on Standards
3.2. National Steel Corporation
3.3. Vermont American Corporation
3.4. Other Materials
4. Business Ventures and Investments
4.1. Goldstein-Porter
4.2. Oil/Gas
4.3. PGF&M Investment
4.4. National Service Industries
5. Organizations
5.1. American Jewish Committee
5.2. Atlanta Historical Society/Atlanta History Center
5.3. Atlanta Jewish Federation
5.4. Chatham Valley Foundation
5.5. Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
6. Personal Materials
6.1. Trips
6.2. Other Materials

Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.

Items Separated

Oversize papers (OP-5226/1-2)

Detailed Description of the Collection