Bill Robinson Oral History
William Robinson participated in Mississippi’s Freedom Summer of 1964 while a student at Columbia Law School. He approached Jack Greenberg for a job at LDF after he graduated in 1966 and proceeded to elevate the organization’s employment discrimination practice. He headed a team that won more than 25 Title VII cases at the federal appellate level before moving on to work for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He later entered academia as both a founding Dean of the University of the District of Columbia School of Law and as Professor of Civil Rights Law at CUNY School of Law.
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Bill Robinson recalls Jack Greenberg's argument for Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
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Bill Robinson interview for the Legal Defense Fund Oral History Project. Interviewed by Susie Penman on October 27, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Conducted in collaboration with the Southern Oral History Program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
