Guest post by Pamela Wall, Clinical Law Student
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Terribly important civil rights work can be terribly upsetting, I’ve found.
When I signed on to be a student in the Wayne Law Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic with the ACLU of Michigan, I had no idea that fighting against the injustices of our world would mean submerging myself in a sea of injustices and swimming around.
Upon starting at the ACLU of Michigan, I learned about Allison Ben, a pregnant single mother being evicted for being a victim of domestic violence. I immediately jumped at the chance to help her.
Though we worked feverishly on her case, Inkster Housing resolutely refused to dismiss her eviction while her abuser grew more and more determined to terrorize and control her.
Over the last few months while I’ve worked with Allison, I’ve had some dark days, days where all that work sometimes seemed to make so little difference in her life. I confess that I felt my hope for society waning, slowly but surely.
