The HistoryMakers video oral history with John Powell.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 56 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11313012
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with John Powell
John Powell
Other authors / contributors:Powell, John A. (John Anthony), interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Minneapolis, Minnesota 2002 August 9.
Recorded Berkeley, California 2015 December 12.
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Summary:Law professor and nonprofit legal director John A. Powell was born in 1947 in Detroit. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1969 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. In 1977, Powell received an International Human Rights Fellowship from the University of Minnesota to work in Southern Africa, where he served as consultant to the government of Mozambique. Between 1987 and 1993, he worked as the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Powell taught at Columbia University School of Law, Harvard Law School, University of Miami School of Law, American University, and the University of San Francisco School of Law before joining the Minnesota Law School faculty in 1993. Founder and executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty (IRP) at the University of Minnesota Law School, he was appointed the Earl R. Larson Chair of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law.