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Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights
- Title
- Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights / Richard A. Rosen & Joseph Mosnier.
- Author
- Rosen, Richard A., 1947-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mosnier, Joseph
- Description
- 395 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark school and employment desegregation cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. In this biography, Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier connect the details of Chambers's life to the wider struggle to secure racial equality through the development of modern civil right law. Tracing his path from a dilapidated black elementary school to counsel's lectern at the Supreme Court and beyond, they reveal Chambers's singular influence on the evolution of federal civil rights law after 1964.
- Subjects
- Civil rights movements
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African American lawyers
- Civil rights lawyers
- Southern States
- African American lawyers > North Carolina > Biography
- Biographies
- Civil rights lawyers > North Carolina > Biography
- 1900-1999
- Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Chambers, Julius L (Julius LeVonne), 1936-2013
- History
- African Americans > Civil rights > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Biography
- North Carolina
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-383) and index.
- Contents
- Child of the Jim Crow South -- Julius Chambers emerges -- Julius Chambers in New York -- Launching the North Carolina campaign, 1964-1965 -- Changing Charlotte -- Fighting the uneven battle: the YMCA cases and Wooten v. Moore -- Creating LDF South -- Taking charge in North Carolina -- School desegregation and the Swann case -- Opening up the workplace: the Title VII campaign -- Taking on the struggle: the Chambers firm in the criminal courts -- Securing the foundation: the Chambers firm in the early 1970s -- Epilogue: an enduring legacy.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-414
- ISBN
- 9781469628547
- 1469628546
- LCCN
- 2016020980
- OCLC
- 945745435
- Author
- Rosen, Richard A., 1947- author.
- Title
- Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights / Richard A. Rosen & Joseph Mosnier.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-383) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Mosnier, Joseph, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-414