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White Lawyer, Black Power: A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South

White Lawyer, Black Power: A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South

Jelinek, Donald A.
Dittmer, John

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1643361171
ISBN13: 9781643361178
Publisher: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
Published: Nov 23 2020
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.

In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and an attorney for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. Jelinek arrived in the Deep South at a pivotal moment in the movement's history as frustration over the failure of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to improve the daily lives of southern blacks led increasing numbers of activists to question the doctrine of nonviolence.

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