Listen to Jack Greenberg, a member of LDF's Brown v. Board of Education legal team, tell the story of Brown in his own words: http://www.naacpldf.org/brown-at-60-listen …
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Civil rights icon and LDF's second Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg was born #OTD in 1924. Throughout his storied career, Greenberg argued 40 cases before the Supreme Court, leaving an indelible mark on this nation. Read our tribute here: http://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-remembers-civil-rights-icon-jack-greenberg-1 …pic.twitter.com/7SzCJgjOw2
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Greenberg transformed the landscape of employment discrimination law. Hear him make history in Griggs v. Duke Power http://buff.ly/2ecE5lX pic.twitter.com/CTsgoZmu2Z
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Greenberg represented Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the other voting rights marchers in Selma in 1965. See the original copy of the
#Selma to Montgomery March order signed by Greenberg & local counsel below:pic.twitter.com/HuBV5QW5dN
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Greenberg scored a major victory in Furman v. Georgia, where the Supreme Court held that the death penalty violated the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause of the Eighth Amendment, resulting in a four-year suspension of the use of capital punishment: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/69-5030 …
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Perhaps less well-known was Greenberg's commitment to Roma rights and his campaigning to end school segregation of Romani children in Central and Eastern Europe. http://www.errc.org/blog/desegregating-europe-remembering-jack-greenberg/132 …
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At the time of his passing,
@Sifill_LDF lauded the visionary leader: “Few understand how powerfully Jack Greenberg shaped the practice of civil rights law and the breadth of his contributions to our modern conception of equal opportunity and justice.”Deze collectie tonen -
Learn more about this key architect of modern civil rights law by reading his memoir, and the definitive biography of LDF’s history, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/Crusaders-Courts-Dedicated-Lawyers-Revolution/dp/0465015182 …
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Wow! This guy was awesome. Where are his equivalents today? We need a champion for removing money from politics.
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