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Film, Video Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 18

Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 18

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Title

  • Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 18

Summary

  • Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other civil rights cases, such as Coke v. City of Atlanta, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, and Griggs v. Duke Power.

Names

  • Greenberg, Jack, 1924-2016, interviewee
  • Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Greenberg, Jack,--1924-2016--Interviews
  • -  Topeka (Kan.).--Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Civil rights--United States--Cases
  • -  Lawyers--United States--Interviews

Genre

  • Filmed Interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in New York, New York, on July 18, 2011.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
  • -  Jack Greenberg was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Columbia University and worked as a staff attorney and Director-Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and as a law professor. He is the author of Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution (2004).
  • -  The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 9 video files of 9 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (47 min.) : digital, sound, color.
  • 1 transcript (22 pages).

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0034

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669133

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line

Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Greenberg, Jack, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669133/.

APA citation style:

Greenberg, J., Mosnier, J. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669133/.

MLA citation style:

Greenberg, Jack, Interviewee, Joseph Mosnier, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669133/>.