
Julius Chambers
A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 5. December 2016
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-4696-2854-7 (ISBN)
Description
Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers(1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney.Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers workedto advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaignfor civil rights, ultimately winning landmark school and employment desegregationcases at the U.S. Supreme Court. Undaunted by the dynamiting ofhis home and the arson that destroyed the offices of his small integrated lawpractice, Chambers pushed federal civil rights law to its highwater mark.
In this biography, Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier connect thedetails of Chambers's life to the wider struggle to secure racial equalitythrough the development of modern civil rights law. Tracing his path froma dilapidated black elementary school to counsel's lectern at the SupremeCourt and beyond, they reveal Chambers's singular influence on the evolutionof federal civil rights law after 1964.
In this biography, Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier connect thedetails of Chambers's life to the wider struggle to secure racial equalitythrough the development of modern civil rights law. Tracing his path froma dilapidated black elementary school to counsel's lectern at the SupremeCourt and beyond, they reveal Chambers's singular influence on the evolutionof federal civil rights law after 1964.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Illustrations
10 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-2854-7 (9781469628547)
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Persons
Richard A. Rosen is professor of law emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joseph Mosnier is assistant director for strategy and communication at the North Carolina State University's Institute for Emerging Issues.
Joseph Mosnier is assistant director for strategy and communication at the North Carolina State University's Institute for Emerging Issues.