Law: Point of Hue

Racism hits an unlikely victim

Jack Greenberg, 57, may be the most experienced civil rights lawyer now practicing in the U.S. He was part of the legal team that won Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools, and that is only one of many groundbreaking lawsuits he has pressed during a 33-year career with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. For the past 21 of those years, he has been the L.D.F.'s respected director-counsel. But now the New York attorney is under fire in two bitter disputes. And...

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