Brown v. General Services Administration Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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January 1, 1974

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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Biographical Notes on NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorneys Appearing this Week Before the Supreme Court, ff184467-bd92-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/42a495f8-2fc5-4a63-b234-6d96f29c7cea/biographical-notes-on-naacp-legal-defense-fund-attorneys-appearing-this-week-before-the-supreme-court. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES CN NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ATTORNEYS 
APPEARING THIS WEEK BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. 

CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 

Mrs. Motley has appeared before the Supreme Court on five 
previous occasions, winning six times (one case was ruled on without 
oral argument). This marks her sixth appearance before the High 
Court. 

Her courtroom victories have encompassed every area of the 
civil rights struggle. Among her most famous cases were James 
Meredith and Cleve McDowell at the University of Mississippi; 
James Hood and Vivian Malone at the University of Alabema; and 
more recently the first school integration of elementery and high 
school level in the city of Alabama; and finally, Charlayne Hunter 
and Hamilton Holmes at the University of Georgia, 

JACK GREENBERG. 

Mr. Greenberg has appeared before the Supreme Court eight 
times, winning all eight cases, 

Though only 30 years old at the time, Mr. Greenberg was chief 
assistant to Thurgood Marshall during the preparation and arguing of 
the historic school integration suits ruled on favourably by the 
High Court in May of 1954, 

Among other historic cases in which Mr. Greenberg has had a 
major hand in creating and directing legal strategy have been those 
establishing (1) the right of admission of Negro students to 
graduate and professional schools in the South; (2) the right of 
Negro passengers to travel both interstate and intrastate without 
being segregated by race; (3) the abolition of discrimination in 
housing. 

Mr, Greenberg became director-counsel of the NAACP Legal 
Defense and Educational Fund in October, 1961. 

MATTHEW J. PERRY. 

Mr, Perry is one of the more than 100 cooperating attorneys 
who work with the Legal Defense Fund, He is a member of the firm 
of Jenkins & Perry, with offices in Columbia, South Carolina, 
This is Mr. Perry's sixth appearance before the Supreme Cort 
during the five year period in which he has argued civil rights 
cases for the Legal Defense Fund. He is a graduate of South 
Carolina State College of Law; is married to the former Hallie 
Bacote. They have one child, Michael, aged 2% years. 

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