This book is both a powerful personal memoir and the definitive history of an organization that helped change American society. Jack Greenberg was a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) for some thirty-five years. Most of the cases we associate from that period--school integration, equal employment, fair housing, voter registration--were LDF cases, either argued by Greenberg himself or litigated under his direction. Greenberg represented Martin Luther King, Jr., in Birmingham and won for him the right to march from Selma to Montgomery. Under Greenberg's leadership, the LDF forced the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith and integrated the University of Alabama when George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door. Greenberg won the cases in which the Supreme Court repudiated the "all deliberate speed" doctrine, which had made school desegregation intolerably slow. Through the 1970s and 1980s, LDF tackled most of the important cases that enforced the new civil rights legislation of the 1960s involving public accommodations, employment, education, and health care, and started the campaigns for prisoners' rights and against capital punishment. More than a history of the litigation that made the LDF so important, the book offers unique insights into its strategies, courtroom techniques, values, and personal relationships. Filled with stories only Greenberg could tell of his experiences with Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, Lani Guinier, Roy Wilkins, Vernon Jordan, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Lyndon Johnson, and scores of others, Crusaders in the Courts is an epic saga of a critical period in American history as well as the poignant personal story of the evolution of a white Jewish lawyer into a major civil rights advocate.

The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition identification: Brown (Clarence) v. General Services Administration Brief in Opposition (P) / ROBERT H BORK / 1974 / 74-768 / 421 U.S. 987 / 95 S.Ct. 1989 / 44 L.Ed.2d 476 / 4-3-1975 Brown (Clarence) v. General Services Administration Reply Brief (P) / JACK GREENBERG / 1974 / 74-768 / 421 U.S. 987 / 95 S.Ct. 1989 / 44 L.Ed.2d 476 / 4-8-1975 Brown (Clarence) v. General Services Administration Petitioner's Brief / JACK GREENBERG / 1974 / 74-768 / 421 U.S. 987 / 95 S.Ct. 1989 / 44 L.Ed.2d 476 / 8-13-1975 Brown (Clarence) v. General Services Administration Respondent's Brief / ROBERT H BORK / 1974 / 74-768 / 421 U.S. 987 / 95 S.Ct. 1989 / 44 L.Ed.2d 476 / 10-7-1975 Brown (Clarence) v. General Services Administration Reply Brief / JACK GREENBERG / 1974 / 74-768 / 421 U.S. 987 / 95 S.Ct. 1989 / 44 L.Ed.2d 476 / 2-25-1976