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August 5, 2013

Civil Rights Attorney Julius Chambers Dies at 76 
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The civil rights attorney Julius Chambers has died at the age of 76
after a long illness. According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,
Chambers was a founding member of the first racially integrated law firm
in North Carolina who litigated and argued a number of key desegregation
and voting rights cases before the Supreme Court. The group said in a
statement: "[Julius Chambers] was a man of tremendous courage. His home
and his car were firebombed on separate occasions in 1965, and his
office was burned to the ground in 1971, during the height of some of
his most contentious civil rights litigation in North Carolina. When he
spoke of these events, Chambers was typically matter-of-fact, insisting
always that you 'just keep fighting.'" Julius Chambers died on Friday in
North Carolina.

 

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