Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights / Richard A. Rosen & Joseph Mosnier.
2016
KF373.C3883 R67 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights / Richard A. Rosen & Joseph Mosnier.
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Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016.
Description
395 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
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.
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-383) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF373.C3883 R67 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781469628547 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1469628546 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781469628554 (ebook)
1469628546 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781469628554 (ebook)
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