Hijo de judíos yiddishistas, progresistas de Europa Oriental, editor de libros de Kafka cuya obra comparó a la realidad de la burocracia en nuestros días, defensor legal de las ideas de igualdad y justicia cambió, con su trabajo, la cara, la vida, la realidad americana en general y la de la comunidad negra en particular.
Jack Greenberg, who died on October 12 at age 91, was more than just a fearless civil rights attorney who famously argued Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court; he was also an admirer of Franz Kafka who applied his writings to historical experience of racial prejudice in America. The 1954 case, determining that state-segregated schools were unconstitutional, propelled Greenberg into the job of director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.
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