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Inspired by a colleague, Wall Street attorney Donald Jelinek travelled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during a three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years. Here Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans.
This is the story of Jelinek's journey, from New York City to the South, from the nonviolence of the civil rights movement to SNCC and Black power. The battles he and others fought exemplify the gripping, jagged edge of the struggle. We need more such memoirs; they are cries for justice, still delayed." -- Orville Vernon Burton, Clemson University "Vivid, powerful, and deeply personal, this narrative of a white lawyer's experience serving the civil rights movement during the turbulent Black power era provides fresh new insights into the most important social movement of our history." -- William H. Chafe, Duke University
Donald A. Jelinek (1934-2016), a graduate of New York University Law School, was best known for his work as a civil rights lawyer defending members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s and the Native Americans who seized Alcatraz Island in 1969.
John Dittmer, professor emeritus of American history at DePauw University and author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, provides a foreword.
This is the story of Jelinek's journey, from New York City to the South, from the nonviolence of the civil rights movement to SNCC and Black power. The battles he and others fought exemplify the gripping, jagged edge of the struggle. We need more such memoirs; they are cries for justice, still delayed." -- Orville Vernon Burton, Clemson University "Vivid, powerful, and deeply personal, this narrative of a white lawyer's experience serving the civil rights movement during the turbulent Black power era provides fresh new insights into the most important social movement of our history." -- William H. Chafe, Duke University
Donald A. Jelinek (1934-2016), a graduate of New York University Law School, was best known for his work as a civil rights lawyer defending members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s and the Native Americans who seized Alcatraz Island in 1969.
John Dittmer, professor emeritus of American history at DePauw University and author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, provides a foreword.