David Dellinger Lawrence Downes In Multiracials and Civil Rights

In Multiracials and Civil Rights

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Noting the grim racial realities still confronting communities of color

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David Dellinger Lawrence Downes In Multiracials and Civil RightsThe year was 1969. In a Chicago courthouse, David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Eight, stood trial for conspiring to disrupt the National Democratic Convention. Dellinger, a long time but relatively unknown activist, was suddenly, at fifty three, catapulted into the limelight for his part in this intense courtroom drama. From obscurity to leader of the antiwar movement, David Dellinger is the first full biography of a man who bridged the gap between