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Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement

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Jack Greenberg, a key figure at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for 35 years, offers a personal memoir and behind the scenes view of the legal battles of the civil rights movement culminating in the landmark trial and decision, Brown v. Board of Education; the defense of Martin Luther King Jr., the origin of major employment discrimination cases.

Author(s): Jack Greenberg
Edition: Anniversary Edition

Language: English

CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Reflections: Introduction to the Anniversary Edition

Part I: Preparing the Ground
1. Prologue: The Moses of the Journey
2. Sowing Seeds
3. Freedom House, 1949
4. Why Me?
5. The Ground is Hard
6. Law Schools in the Supreme Court

Part II: Edging Toward a Showdown: Brown v. Board of Education

7. An End to Segregation - Nothing Else
8. Groveland
9. Preparing for Battle
10. Jim Crow and the Voice of God in Kansas
11. Groveland, Delaware, and Dancers Dressed in Feathers
12. The School Segregation Cases and Our Cast of Characters
13. In the House of the Law
14. Back to the Drawing Board

Part III: Brown Decided: Eyes on the Future
15. A Historic Turn
16. The Spirit of Black Revolt Stirs and Jim Crow Fights Back
17. Lucy and Little Rock: War of All Men Against All Men
18. Trench Warfare
19. Vivid Memories

Part IV: The Movement Takes Off
20. Our of the Courts and Into the Streets
21. New Clients, New Cases, New Theories
22. The New Chief Counsel: I Succeed Thurgood, LDF Transforins
23. Completing the Circle: Freedom Fighters Free Themselves
24. Jim Crow Crushed in Mississippi
25. Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, Fighting Among Freedom Fighters
26. From Selma to Montgomery

Part V: The Era of the Civil Rights Act
27. LDF Grows as an Institution
28. Education Following the Defeat of "All Deliberate Speed"
29. Angela Davis, the San Rafael Shootout, and Turmoil at LDF
30. Winning Jobs
31. The War on Poverty: Martin Luther King, Jr. and NORI
32. NORI and Criminal Justice
33. Affirmative Action
34. LDF Goes to Washington
3S. Final Separations
36. Beyond the Rights of Blacks

Part VI: Changing the Guard Again
37. My Last Years at LDF
38. A Summation: Victories and Defeats, Imagining the Future

Bibliographical Notes
Table of Cases
Index