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...School announced that the course on race, which had previously been a full-term course, would now be offered as a "minicourse" in the Law School's three-week January session. And it announced that two visiting professors would share the teaching load: J. LeVonne Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the LDF. Chambers is Black, and Greenberg is white...
...earlier letters in July, the students had specifically attacked the choice of a white instructor for the mini-course, and they objected to what they called Greenberg's "apparent hostility toward historically predominantly Black educational institutions, his adamant refusal to relinquish directorship of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to a Black attorney, and his opposition to Black student associations on predominantly white campuses." Colleagues and law professors jumped to Greenberg's defense, and he denied the charges levelled by the law students. The student's belated attempt to deemphasize their initial criticisms of Greenberg did little to repair the damage...
...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 partly underlying both is the issue of race. For Jack Greenberg is white...
...Advancement of Colored People faced a deeper crisis. Membership is stagnant, it has growing financial problems, and the 64-member board is divided not by searching debates over new directions but by personal feuds and internal politics. Beyond that, the association is engaged in a costly battle with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund over the fund's use of those initials. "The N.A.A.C.P. is in its twilight zone," says Martin Kilson of Harvard, one of the nation's ranking black political scientists. "The sun is setting on its head...
...discrimination grievance first became public. Croxton said, when she mentioned it during an interview with WNEV television during last week's NAACP conference in Boston...