The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with john powell

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with john powell

8/9/2002; 12/12/2015

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.158

Academic administrator, nonprofit legal director, and law professor john powell (1947 - ) was a specialist on poverty and race, and was the National Legal Director for the ACLU. He held the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. Powell was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/9/2002 and 12/12/2015, in Berkeley, California and Minneapolis, Minnesota. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 56m 06s

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Powell, John A. (John Anthony)

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Professor john a. powell, who does not capitalize his name, was born on May 27, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. He is recognized as an expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties and issues relating to race, poverty and the law and has written extensively on the effects of race and poverty on U.S. society.Professor powell earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1969 and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973, after which he became an attorney with the Se...