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

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jelinek, Donald A. (Lawyer) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Dittmer, John, 1939- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jelinek, Donald A. > (Lawyer)
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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