Jack O’Dell – Black Commentator

Jack O'Dell

Jack O'Dell joined the Merchant Marine during World War II and was an active member of the NMU for six years. He directed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s voter registration campaign in the early 1960's and later was an editor of Freedomways magazine and Director of International Affairs in the Rainbow Coalition.

Guest Commentary

The Democracy Charter & The Fierce Urgency of Now

By Jack O'Dell Guest Commentator

Jack O’Dell first articulated the idea of a Democracy Charter for the United States in his plenary address at the How Class Works – 2004 conference at Stony Brook, It is based on the South African experience with their Freedom Charter, adopted in 1955 as a founding document of the ultimately successful struggle to abolish…

Jack O'Dell first articulated the idea of a Democracy Charter for the United States in his plenary address at the How Class Works - 2004 conference…

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