Today, February 27, 2014, I finished reading LDF Director-Counsel, Jack Greenberg's revealing legal-historical, autobiographical and personal, anecdotal compendium of the Civil Rights era from 1949, when he was hired by the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.'s Thurgood Marshall, until his resignation in 1984, to return to Columbia University Law School, his alma mater, as a law professor.
CRUSADERS IN THE COURTS: LEGAL BATTLES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (2004) is singular in many respects. It affords an inside-out look on social, political and legal developments that only an attorney involved in the muck and mire of litigation can possibly know.
As a civil rights lawyer, and as a Howard University lawyer, in plaintiff's practice for over twenty years in Kansas City, Missouri, I brought a unique perspective to the reading of this seminal work, one which clashed with LDF's notion of the inherent inferiority of blacks to whites, which could only be cured by "integration," or other public policy palliatives. That said, I appreciate Mr. Greenberg's scholarship, service, and candid insights, which shed great insight into icons, trends, and canards, which bring us to 2014.
I commend this masterful work to all lawyers, and to persons interested in the legal and historical evolution of 'the movement' and of this moment!
Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement, Anniversary Edition
www.amazon.com
Thursday, February 27, 2014
CRUSADERS IN THE COURTS
Today, February 27, 2014, I finished reading LDF Director-Counsel, Jack Greenberg's revealing legal-historical, autobiographical and personal, anecdotal compendium of the Civil Rights era from 1949, when he was hired by the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.'s Thurgood Marshall, until his resignation in 1984, to return to Columbia University Law School, his alma mater, as a law professor.
CRUSADERS IN THE COURTS: LEGAL BATTLES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (2004) is singular in many respects. It affords an inside-out look on social, political and legal developments that only an attorney involved in the muck and mire of litigation can possibly know.
As a civil rights lawyer, and as a Howard University lawyer, in plaintiff's practice for over twenty years in Kansas City, Missouri, I brought a unique perspective to the reading of this seminal work, one which clashed with LDF's notion of the inherent inferiority of blacks to whites, which could only be cured by "integration," or other public policy palliatives. That said, I appreciate Mr. Greenberg's scholarship, service, and candid insights, which shed great insight into icons, trends, and canards, which bring us to 2014.
I commend this masterful work to all lawyers, and to persons interested in the legal and historical evolution of 'the movement' and of this moment!
Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement, Anniversary Edition
www.amazon.com
