Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights

by Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469669307
• ISBN13: 9781469669304
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"