NEWSWEEK.COM TO HOST LIVE TALK ON SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
WITH PROMINENT CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY JACK GREENBERG

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 11, 2007) — Jack Greenberg, a Columbia Law School professor and a leader in the civil rights movement, will talk about his career and school desegregation cases in a "live talk" on Newsweek.com, in connection with The E-Guide to Public Service at America's Law Schools. The talk is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Greenberg, who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in more than 40 cases, will answer your questions during this discussion. This live talk is one of several special events in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

To submit a question in advance or to participate in the live talk, visit The E-Guide at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16546703/site/newsweek/.

Greenberg was co-counsel with Thurgood Marshall on the landmark Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional. Another of his cases, Alexander v. Holmes, ordered the end of segregated school systems "at once." Now he speaks out on the U.S. Supreme Court cases argued last month that will determine the future of school desegregation efforts in decades to come.

In 1961, Greenberg succeeded Marshall as the director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a position he held until 1984, when he joined the faculty of Columbia Law School. Throughout his career he has remained active in civil rights and human rights causes. He has participated in human rights missions to the Soviet Union, Poland, South Africa, the Sudan, the Philippines, Korea, Nepal, Bulgaria and elsewhere.

In 2001 Greenberg was one of 28 distinguished Americans honored by President Clinton with Presidential Citizens Medals at a White House ceremony. President Clinton said of him: "In the courtroom and the classroom, Jack Greenberg has been a crusader for freedom and equality for more than half a century."

The live talk will be held in conjunction with the posting on The E-Guide of essays by civil rights lawyers, each describing their dream for progress in 2007 on one issue they work on. The essayists will include:

• Martha Bergmark, Mississippi Center for Justice (racial and economic justice after Hurricane Katrina)
• Barbara Arnwine, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (obstacles to the ballot box)
• Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama (the death penalty)
• Jamienne Studley, Public Advocates (education justice)
• Stewart Kwoh, Asian Pacific American Legal Center (language barriers to justice)

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