On the Frontlines of Freedom (ePub)
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I walked the smoldering streets of Newark with Hank di Suvero and his then-wife Ramona Ripston, introducing him to families of victims of police shootings during July 1967. Di Suvero, the new ACLU-NJ director, bravely sued the Newark Police Department when most of civil society was succumbing to irrational fear and law-and-order rhetoric. As history shows again and again, we need the ACLU to take unpopular stands when the Bill of Rights is threatened.
Tom Hayden, Newark Community Union Project, 1964-68; author, Rebellion in Newark, Random House, 1967
This wondrously fascinating and informed narrative history of the life and times of the ACLU of New Jersey is far more than a welcomed chronicle of a venerable organization that protects the rights of citizens and settlers. It contributes as well to a deeper understanding of the complicated, contested and oft troublesome quest for a meaningful democracy in contemporary New Jersey. Mary Jo Patterson has given us a riveting account of why the ACLU has engaged so many fronts and issues where justice and equal rights are worth fighting for and defending.
Clement Alexander Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark
Mary Jo Patterson is a freelance reporter and writer. During a 37-year career with three newspapers, she disguised herself in all categories of newswriting, covering everything from Scrabble competition to national security. Her profile of Gov. Jim McGreevey helped The Star Ledger win a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 and her first-day account of the fatal fire at Seton Hall University won first prize in the American Society for Newspaper Editors competition for deadline writing in 2001. She was also a member of a reporting team awarded the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award in 2006 for a series of stories on the Patriot Act. Since leaving the world of daily nespapers she has written frquently about education and health. Mary Jo grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University. She received two graduate degrees from Columbia University including masters in journalism. Married with a grown daughter and son, she lives in West Orange, N.J.
- Autor: Mary Jo Patterson
- 2012, 148 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: iUniverse
- ISBN-10: 1469760924
- ISBN-13: 9781469760926
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2012
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- Größe: 3.78 MB
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