As a young staff attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Landsberg, an emeritus professor at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, was a witness to some of the most pivotal events of the civil rights movement in Alabama in the 1960s.
For more than two decades, Landsberg worked of the Civil Rights Division, rising to chief of the Appellate Section, where he played a crucial role in developing cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Landsberg was interviewed on July 13, 2018, at the studio of the California Channel in Sacramento by Mary Louise Frampton, director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at the UC Davis School of Law. Frampton has a long career as a civil rights attorney.
