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

By Donald A. Jelinek, John Dittmer (Foreword by)
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By Donald A. Jelinek, John Dittmer (Foreword by)
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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 f...

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