Donald A. Jelinek (1934-2016) was best known for his work as a civil rights lawyer who defended members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Native Americans who seized Alcatraz Island to dramatize their grievances against the federal government, and the indicted survivors of the Attica prison riot.
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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 yea... SEE MORE