LAWRENCE — A civil rights attorney who helped Thurgood Marshall argue the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court will speak next week at the Kansas University law school. Columbia law professor Jack Greenberg will deliver a Living History lecture at Thursday afternoon, July 28, at 4 in Green Hall. Greenberg joined Marshall in 1949 as a member of the NAACP legal team that persuaded the high court to overturn the “separate but equal” Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. He argued 40 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court and he won a court order allowing Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of protesters to make the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alab. He is a founding member of Human Rights Watch and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. His speech and a reception are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, July 20, 3 p.m.
