THE METHODIST LAW CENTRE - An Ecumenical Legal Assistance Ministry
DEDICATION OF THIS PAGE IS MADE TO TWO JEWISH lawyers
Louis Marshall (1856 - 1929)
Louis Marshall was an American corporate, constitutional, and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups. Among the founders of the American Jewish Commitee (AJC), he defended Jewish and minority rights. In 1923, he was honored as a director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Marshall graduated from Columbia Law School.
Jack Greenberg (1924 - 2016)
Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall. He was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools. In all, he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and won almost all of them. He was Alphonse Fletcher Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus at Columbia Law School, and had previously served as dean of Columbia College and vice dean of Columbia Law School.