Greenberg Succeeds Marshall As NAACP's Chief Legal Council

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Greenberg Succeeds Marshall As 

NAACP’s Chief Legal Council 
‘AMCP named a young 

white lawyer this week as its chief 
Jegal counsel, and Atlanta civil 
rights leaders apparently found 
the choice a happy one, 

: 36, a veteran 
of 12 years on the NAACP legal 
staff, succeeds Thurgood Marshall, 
whom President Kennedy has nom- 
inated to the U.S. Circuit Court of 
Appeals. 

‘Atlanta attorney Donald L. Hol- 
lowell, wha has battled side by 
side with Greenberg in several de- 
segregation cases, including the 
‘one which opened Atlanta airport 
facilities early last year, told the 
Inquirer: 

“We were very happy to learn 
of Mr. Marshall's appointment to 
‘a Federal judgeship. As his chief 
assistant, Mr. Greenberg was the 
logical choice to succeed him. 

“We look forward with pleasure 
to working very closely with Mr. 
Greenberg in the future.” 

The significant issues that Mr. 
Greenberg has worked on inclade 
cases that established the right of 
admission of Negro students to 

graduate and professional schools 
in the South, the right of Negro 
passengers to travel both inter 
state and intrastate without being 
segregated by race and the aboli- 
tion of discrimination in housing. 

He has also been active in the 
defense of those who have been ar- 
rested and convicted in sit-ins and 
Freedom Rides in the South, 

He is now preparing the defense 
of Negro students convicted in sit- 
in demonstrations in Baton Rouge, 
La. a case that he will argue be- 
fore the Supreme Court in two 
weeks. It will be the first sit-in 
case to be heard by the high court, 

He has worked on the staff of 
the New York State Law Revision 
Commission at Cornell University 
and_is at present executive direc- 
tor of the New York State Bar As- 
sociation’s special committee to 
study the New York antitrust laws. 

He is the author of “Rete Rela- 
tions and American Law” and co- 
author of “Citizen’s Guide to De- 
segregation.” z 

‘When the Supreme Court heard 
final arguments, on the constitu- 

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tionality of racial segregation in 
the public schools late in 1952, Mr. 
Greenberg was the only lawyer 
presenting the cases who was not 
a Negro. Intimates of Mr, Green- 
berg say that he is not even aware 
that he is often the only white man 
in a group of Negroes. 

w, for him, is-a religion, and 
he once confided that the only 
place where he really felt he was 
in a house of religion was when he 
entered the Supreme Court of the 
United States. 

Tt was a student at the Columbia 
University Law School, where he 
was graduated in 1948 as a Harlan 
Fiske Stone Scholar, that he first 
became involyed with’ the NAACP. 

Préf, Walter Gellhorn, an av- 

student to help handle some of the 
NAACP’ cases, the professor sub- 
mitted Mr. Greenberg's name.