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...year after law school, Nesson was awarded a Sheldon traveling fellowship for study in Europe. What did he study? "Skiing...
...following year Nesson spent as a clerk for Justice John Harlan of the Supreme Court, after which he joined the Justice Department as special assistant to John Doar in the Civil Rights Division...
...could live my life over that's another thing I would have changed: I wouldn't have left the Justice Department when I did," says Nesson...
...when Stokely Carmichael staged his Mississippi March from Alabama, Doar and Nesson were working in Lowndes County there, known as "Bloody Lowndes." Doar and Nesson brought about the first convictions of Ku Klux Klan members before an all-white jury for violence against black citizens...
Before leaving the Justice Department, Nesson also worked on the Alabama reapportionment cases, which involved stopping attempts to redraw boundary lines of cities so as to exclude the homes of most black residents, thus making them ineligible in city elections...