Jack Greenberg
Jack Greenberg · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Succeeded Thurgood Marshall as director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (1961-1984); part of the Brown v. Board of Education legal team.
1924, New York City, USA — 2016, New York City, USA
New York City
Jack Greenberg was an American-Jewish civil rights lawyer who led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for 35 years.
Jack Greenberg, born to Jewish immigrant parents in New York, was a civil-rights lawyer who served on the Brown v. Board of Education legal team and argued the case before the Supreme Court alongside Thurgood Marshall. He succeeded Marshall as director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (1961–1984), arguing dozens of civil-rights cases. He also helped found MALDEF and Human Rights Watch.
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Succeeded Thurgood Marshall as director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (1961-1984); part of the Brown v. Board of Education legal team.
Source: Wikipedia (Jack Greenberg); Jews in the civil rights movement (Wikipedia)
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