Background
Greenberg, Jack was born on December 22, 1924 in New York City. Son of Max and Bertha (Rosenberg) Greenberg.
(A personal memoir and in-depth history of the civil right...)
A personal memoir and in-depth history of the civil rights movement traces the development of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund and the author's experiences with Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Marian Wright Edelman, and others.
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(Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense F...)
Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for 35 years, offers a personal memoir and behind the scenes view of the legal battles of the civil rights movement culminating in the landmark trial and decision, Brown v. Board of Education; the defense of Martin Luther King Jr., the origin of major employment discrimination cases.
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(Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense F...)
Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for 35 years, offers a personal memoir and behind the scenes view of the legal battles of the civil rights movement culminating in the landmark trial and decision, Brown v. Board of Education; the defense of Martin Luther King Jr., the origin of major employment discrimination cases.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0974728608/?tag=2022091-20
(Brown v. Board of Education plaintiffs' attorney Jack Gre...)
Brown v. Board of Education plaintiffs' attorney Jack Greenberg chronicles the historic struggle and legal victory of this landmark case to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Edited from Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement, Anniversary Edition. A perfect accessible text for the student, lawyer and historian in all of us.
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Greenberg, Jack was born on December 22, 1924 in New York City. Son of Max and Bertha (Rosenberg) Greenberg.
AB, Columbia University, 1945. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia University, 1948. Doctor of Laws, Columbia University, 1984.
Doctor of Laws, Morgan State College, Central State College, 1965. Doctor of Laws, Lincoln University, 1977. Doctor of Laws, John Jay College Criminal Justice, 1983.
Doctor of Laws, De Paul University, 1994. Doctor of Laws, Howard University, 2004. Doctor of Laws, Notre Dame, 2005.
Research assistant New York State Law Revision Commission, 1949. Assistant counsel National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1949-1961, director-counsel, 1961-1984. Argued in school segregation, sit-in, employment discrimination, poverty, capital punishment, other cases before Supreme Court of the United States Court.
Adjunct professor Columbia University Law School, 1970-1984, professor, vice-dean, 1984-1989, professor New York City, 1993—2006, Alphonse Fletcher Junior professor law, since 2007. Dean Columbia College, 1989-1993. Consultant Center Applied Legal Studies, University Witwatersrand, 1978.
Visiting lecturer Yale University Law School, 1971. Visiting professor City College of New York, 1977, Tokyo University, 1993-1994, 99, St. Louis University Law School, 1994, Lewis and Clark Law School, 1994-1998, Princeton University, 1995, University Munich, 1998. Lecturer Harvard University Law School, 1983, Hebrew University, 2005.
Distinguished lecturer humanities Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1998, University Nurenberg-Erlangen, 1999, Hebrew University, 2005, University Auckland, New Zealand, 2005.
(Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense F...)
(Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense F...)
(A personal memoir and in-depth history of the civil right...)
(Brown v. Board of Education plaintiffs' attorney Jack Gre...)
Author: (with H. Hill) Citizens Guide to Desegregation, 1955, Race Relations and American Law, 1959, Judicial Process and Social Change, 1976, (with James Vorenberg) Dean Cuisine or the Liberated Man's Guide to Fine Cooking, 1990, Crusaders in the Courts, 1994, Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement, 2004, Brown v. Board of Education: Witness to a Landmark Decision, 2004. Contributing author: Race, Sex and Religious Discrimination in International Law, 1981.
Contributor articles to professional journals.
Board directors New York City Legal Aid Society, International League for Human Rights, Mexico-American Legal Defense Fund, 1968-1975, Asian American Legal Defense Fund, since 1980, Human Rights Watch, 1978-1998, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense & Educational Fund. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College Trial Lawyers. Member American Bar Association (commission to study Federal Trade Commission, advisory committee to special committee on crime prevention, section on individual rights and responsibilities, Silver Gavel award, Thurgood Marshall prize, 1996, Presidential Citizens medal 2001), New York State Bar Association (executive director special committee study state antitrust laws 1956), American Law Institute, Bar Association City New York (Cardozo lecturer 1973) Administrative Conference United States.
Married Sema Ann Tanzer, 1950 (divorced 1970). Children: Josiah, David, Sarah, Ezra. Married Deborah M. Cole, 1970.
Children: Suzanne, William Cole.