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Whether this plan is both wise and workable remains to be seen. Whatever the answers, it is clearly important to get more blacks on juries because, as the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund's Michael Meltsner puts it, "the confidence of the black community in the judicial process is critical to the survival of the whole society...
...that he imparted to it. A man of stern humanitarian ideals, he loomed on the bench as a kind of Old Testament lawgiver, who approached issues with a disarming simplicity. "You'd see this paterfamilias insisting on the justice of the black man's cause," noted Michael Meltsner, a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, who has argued before the Warren court. "Almost every question was directed toward justice, not technicalities...
Speaking were Howard formerly of the civil rights of the Justice Department; Meltsner, counsel for the Legal Defense Fund; and Zinn, professor of government at Boston University...
...Meltsner John Doer, head of the civil division of the Justice Department, who was kept in Washington because of the signing of the rights bill...
...Meltsner pointed out that "the law not only registers goals, but it sets them. Without law, the sit-ins would have been impossible," he said. He suggested that demonstrators should also think it terms of using existing legal channels to obtain their ends. "Getting laws may be a question of demonstrations, but getting them to work is more sophisticated...