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Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights / Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier.
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Rosen, Richard A., 1947-
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English
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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395 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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KF373.C3883 R67 2016
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Subject(s)
Civil rights lawyers
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North Carolina
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Biography
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African American lawyers
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North Carolina
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Biography
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African Americans
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Civil rights
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North Carolina
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History
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20th century
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Civil rights movements
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Southern States
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History
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20th century
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Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne) 1936-2013
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Mosnier, Joseph
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Biographies
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Summary note
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-383) 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.
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ISBN
9781469628547 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1469628546 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016020980
OCLC
945745435
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