1. Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar.
16 Facts About Jack Greenberg
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Jack Greenberg was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.
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Jack Greenberg was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools.
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Jack Greenberg commanded a landing craft in the invasion of Iheya Jima, one of the final campaigns of the war.
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Jack Greenberg became the only white legal counselor for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 1949, and, in 1961, succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF's Director-Counsel.
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Jack Greenberg recalled his earliest arguments before the Supreme Court, saying:.
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In perhaps his greatest stride, Greenberg argued Brown v Board of Education in 1954 before the Supreme Court as co-counsel with Thurgood Marshall.
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In Brown, Jack Greenberg found social scientists and other authorities from the fields of psychology and sociology who addressed the detrimental effects forced segregation could have on young public school students.
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In 1962, Greenberg argued Meredith v Fair, a case which became a first step in integrating the University of Mississippi by allowing the enrollment of student James Meredith.
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Jack Greenberg was a founding member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and of Human Rights Watch.
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Jack Greenberg was an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School from 1970 to 1984, a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School in 1971, and a visiting professor at College of the City of New York in 1977.
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Jack Greenberg left LDF in 1984 to become a professor and Vice Dean at Columbia Law School.
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Jack Greenberg served as Dean of Columbia College from 1989 to 1993.
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Jack Greenberg's teaching interests include constitutional law, civil rights, and human rights law, civil procedure, "Kafka and the Law", and South Africa's post-apartheid constitution.
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Jack Greenberg had varied intellectual interests: aside from several books on law and civil rights, including Crusaders in the Courts, he has written a cookbook, and appeared as a panelist for a New York Times tasting of Oregon pinot noir.
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Jack Greenberg edited Franz Kafka: The Office Writings with two other scholars.