NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc.: Civil Rights Law Institutes. Cases and Materials. Volume I [with] Volume II [with] Volume III

LIKELY THE ONLY COMPLETE COPY OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY (and extraordinarily rare!) PUBLICATION, THE MASTER COPY OF THE FIRST MANUAL FOR PURSUING CIVIL RIGHTS CASES, PRESERVED BY JACK GREENBERG, WHO CONCEIVED OF THE PROJECT. Volume I: viii, 1-198, 198/1-14, 199-375 pp; Volume II: vi (misnumbered viii, but complete), 377-487, 487/1-78, 488-606, 606/1-24, 607-723; 725-817, 602/1-58. Jack Greenberg initiated this project shortly after taking the reins of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (which, being non-profit, had already detached itself from the for-profit N.A.A.C.P.) As Greenberg notes in the preface, civil rights law was becoming a specialty, like other branches of the law, and thus needed specialized guidebooks. The Fund's lawyers, guided by the principles set forth in these manuals, went on to win virtually all of the important cases of the civil rights era. Only a few dozen copies were issued, and most of them lack some or all of the important interpolations (see collation.) Furthermore, since this manual was printed for use in a seminar and issued in three-ring binders, sections were often removed. And finally, the third volume was issued last, in a tiny edition, and is exceptionally rare. Fortunately Jack Greenberg preserved a complete copy, with all of the interpolations, for personal reference. Upon his retirement as a Columbia Law School professor (in 2015, at age 90), he gave this set to his son. 4to. In the original leatherette three-ring binders, all of which are perfectly functional. Some wear to binders, but still solid. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT, with a few manuscript corrections in Greenberg's hand. AN ABSOLUTELY CENTRAL DOCUMENT FOR THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, AND OF ALL LATER CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION.