A Common Purpose: Image Gallery

Winter 2009

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View historic photos of Columbia Law School alumni who served as NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers and clients.

  • Columbia Law School Professor Jack Greenberg '48 at a conference table with, among others, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Julius Chambers LL.M. '64
  • James Meredith '68 with Constance Baker Motley '46 (both at center)
  • The legal team in the Brown v. Board of Education case, a team that included former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall and Columbia Law School Professor Jack Greenberg '48
  • Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw during his time with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • Constance Baker Motley '46
  • Professor Jack Greenberg '48 with Jesse Jackson
  • Julius Chambers LL.M. '64 walking up the steps of a courthouse
  • Professor Jack Greenberg '48 with Senator Ted Kennedy
  • Constance Baker Motley '46 stands with Arthur Shores, a client of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, whose house in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed twice in three weeks
  • Robert L. Carter LL.M. '41
  • Professor Jack Greenberg '48 with Robert L. Carter LL.M. '41 (both at center)
  • James Meredith '68 with Constance Baker Motley '46 and television personality Ed Sullivan
  • James Meredith '68 with Constance Baker Motley '46
  • Constance Baker Motley '46 and Professor Jack Greenberg '48 with the Shiners, an organization that has donated generously to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • Constance Baker Motley '46
  • Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall