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.