Oral history interview with Jack Greenberg, 1975
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- Name
- Greenberg, Jack, 1924- (Interviewee)
- Gellhorn, Kitty (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Jack Greenberg, 1975
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Jack Greenberg, 1975
- Abstract
- 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
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Lawyers; Civil rights--United States; African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc; Race discrimination--Law and legislation; Legal assistance to the poor--United States; Race discrimination--United States; African Americans--Civil rights; United States Race relations; Greenberg, Jack, 1924-; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality; United States. Supreme Court
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Biographical interview
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Kitty Gellhorn
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7094636
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/5g0c-d819
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.