{"id":1189,"date":"2016-10-16T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2016-10-16T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:10:00","slug":"influential-civil-and-human-rights-lawyer-educator-and-author-jack-greenberg-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/16\/influential-civil-and-human-rights-lawyer-educator-and-author-jack-greenberg-dies-aged-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Influential Civil and Human Rights Lawyer, Educator and Author Jack Greenberg dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Greenberg, \u00a0who joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued cases in front of the Supreme Court before he turned 30, died this week at the age of 91.\u00a0 He was the last surviving lawyer who argued <em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> at the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Greenberg was awarded the\u00a0 Presidential Citizens Medal in 2001.\u00a0 This award recognizes an individual who has performed exemplary deeds or services for his or her country or fellow citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Jack Greenberg, \u00a0who joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued cases in front of the Supreme Court before he turned 30, died this week at the age of 91.\u00a0 He was the last surviving <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/16\/influential-civil-and-human-rights-lawyer-educator-and-author-jack-greenberg-dies-aged-91\/\" title=\"Influential Civil and Human Rights Lawyer, Educator and Author Jack Greenberg dies aged 91\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-usa","9":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}