Interesting interview on civil rights with African-American Judge – Justice Henderson

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Vivek S.
– March 4, 2007Posted in: Governance, Human rights, Podcasts & webcasts, Social Movements
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Justice Henderson started as a sports person and with some mentoring graduated in Law. As he was finishing school he had an interesting offer to work in the Kennedy administration on civil rights issues. The interview interlaces Justice Henderson’s biography with the tumultuous years of civil rights activism in USA. The path he took – African American sports person who finally went on to become a Judge in a US District court and with an involvement in civil rights movement gives him interesting insights – and gives us interesting ways of thinking about issues.

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