White lawyer, black power a memoir of civil rights activism in the deep South
"Author Donald Jelinek offers a powerful, first-hand account of his time working as a civil rights attorney in Mississippi and Alabama during a three-year period from 1965-1968. Originally Jelinek, an NYU-trained lawyer in his early 30s, volunteered only to spend a few weeks working pro bono fo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press
[2020]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45022100*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Going South
- Lawyers for the movement
- On the road
- Mississippi's newest Civil Rights worker
- Novice county leader
- Time to leave ... and return
- Full-time Civil Rights lawyer
- The "rape" of the plantation owner's wife
- A crack in the movement
- White lawyer in black power Selma
- The Cotton Wars
- Black versus black in the 1966 elections
- The dark side of two federal judges
- No blacks on southern juries
- Fired and banished
- Unsung heroes of Selma : the fathers of St. Edmund
- The unimaginable poor
- The fight for food
- Goodbye to SNCC ... and the south.
