Oral history interview with Jack Greenberg, 1975.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

New York City family background; education and naval duty; Law Revision Commission; history of Legal Defense Fund; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund, 1949- : important cases, staff problems, conflicts; Miranda case, racial discrimination in jury selection and housing, capital punishment, welfare rights; sit-ins and Freedom Rides; contributions of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and Congress of Racial Equality to civil rights movement; Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund; working relationship of Legal Defense Fund with Supreme Court; impressions of Thurgood Marshall, James Meredith, others

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Congress of Racial Equality.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Greenberg, Jack, 1924-2016--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Legal assistance to the poor--United States.
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Race discrimination--Law and legislation.
• Race discrimination--United States.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• United States--Race relations.
• United States. Supreme Court.