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White Lawyer, Black Power : A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South by Donald A Jelinek, (Lawyer); John Dittmer is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<P>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.</P><P>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.</P><P>Jelinek offers a fresh perspective that emphasizes the complex dynamics and relationships that shaped the post-1965 black power era. Replete with sharply etched, complex portraits of the personalities Jelinek encountered, from the rank-and-file civil rights workers who fo

Author

Donald A Jelinek, (Lawyer); John Dittmer

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781643361185

Subjects

Law, Political Science, History