Talk:Jack Greenberg (lawyer)
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I did basically a nice single-'graph stub followed by an ugly 3-'graph dump job. The obvious fix is to move the 3 'graphs to this page and wait, but hopefully someone with a little more background can supplement the materials i've provided & make a better article than i could.
--Jerzy·t 14:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
A colleague has done a nice job of making prose out of the materials i dumped, but i've moved the Brown v. material:
- == Brown v. Board of Education ==
- Greenberg argued on behalf of the NAACP the famous Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. This historic case lead to the U.S. Supreme Court decision which outlawed racial segregation in U.S. public schools in 1955.
- Greenberg, along with Louis Redding, argued Gebhart v. Belton (Court citation:33 Del. Ch. 144), one of the four cases that were combined into Brown v. Board of Education. Gebhart was originally filed in Delaware and was originally litigated under a strategy formulated by Robert L. Carter of the NAACP. Greenberg had assisted Carter at the original hearing of Brown.
(BTW, i unlk-ed the hdg, here, in conformity w/ WP style for articles.)
It may contain the start of a good section on Greenberg's contrib, but at this point it is just a redundant reorg of the Gebhart v. Belton article (which IMO should stay independent & be expanded w/ non-Greenberg-specific material) & IMO more of a barrier to drawing forth a Greenberg-centered mention of NAACP-sponsored litigation.
--Jerzy·t 12:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Text removed 22 December 2005
The following text was added to the article by an anonymous user (IP: 68.36.86.137) on October 29, 2005. It was added below the stubs and categories and presented some formatting problems, but because it wasn't NPOV and goes a little overboard on his family history, I decided to remove it from the article and place it here. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 16:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Jack Greenberg had four kids with his first marriage, to Sema Tanzer. His first son was Josiah T. Greenberg and his second son was David T Greenberg. And then he had twins, a boy Ezra T Greenberg and a girl Sarah T Greenberg. His first son had two daughters with Janette Martha Christine Wright Greenberg, who was originally from Scotland. The first girl was named Jessica Tanzer Wright Greenberg and the second daughter was named Julia Tanzer Wright Greenberg. His second son had a boy named Sam Greenberg.
Jack later remarried to Debra Man Cole. She also worked in Civil Rights.
Jack Greenberg is still an amazing professor at Columbia Law School, though he is over 80. He says that he will continue to work until a student gives him a bad review.
[edit] Film
There has been a film announced regarding Jack's life, possibly starring Topher Grace & Terrence Howard (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418277/) I'm new to wikipedia and not clear on editing; once I'm up to date I'll have a crack at this article if noone else has already. Afrodiziak 02:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
