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Title
White lawyer, black power
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Jelinek, Donald A. (Lawyer) (author)
Dittmer, John, 1939- (author of introduction, etc.)
Subject
Jelinek, Donald A. (Lawyer)
Lawyers--United States--Biography (LCSH)
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography (LCSH)
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century (LCSH)
Genre Form
Autobiographies (LCGFT)
Language
English (eng)
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: KF373.J43 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 340.092B full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
bibliography (bibliography)
index (index)
Content
text (txt)
Summary
"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 for the ACLU in Mississippi. Instead, he ended up quitting his job with a New York City law firm and staying in the South for several consequential years. Jelinek provides compelling testimony of the work that he and other movement activists did during that time. Perhaps the richest portions of the book come when Jelinek describes his interactions with the local people who formed the core of the Movement in the Deep South. The passages describing conversations with Black sharecroppers and fellow civil rights organizers provide highly readable discussions of the nature of on-the-ground organizing that will be valuable both to scholars of the Movement and interested parties more generally. His account highlights the long, slow, hard work of organizing, work that was built one house at a time, through the cultivation of relationships and trust"-- Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
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.
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Jelinek, Donald A. (Lawyer) White lawyer, black power
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Date: 2020-06-10
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Date: 2024-08-03T05:02:08.174997-04:00
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Description Language: English
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