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Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne), 1936-. Papers, 1902-1975, 1964-1975.

Title: Papers, 1902-1975, 1964-1975.

Consists of files of Chambers and his Charlotte law firm, Chambers, Stein, Ferguson, and Lanning, relating to Chambers's representation of James E. Swann, et al, plaintiffs in the landmark school desegregation case SWANN V. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION.

ArchivalResource: 12.75 ft. (ca. 7,650 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20184672 View

Elwood, William A. Papers of William A. Elwood, 1984-1989.

Title: Papers of William A. Elwood, 1984-1989.

The collection consists of 284 videotapes shot for the Civil Rights Lawyers Project. The tapes were used in the award winning documentary film "The Road to Brown : the untold story of 'the man who killed Jim Crow', " about the life of Charles Hamilton Houston's crusade for civil rights and the events that led to "Brown vs. the Board of Education," and the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared the 'separate but equal' doctrine illegal. Interviewees include H. Brandt Ayers, Jack Bass, Gardner L. Bishop, Delores R. Boyd, Frances Brand, Wiley Branton, Alvin J. Bronstein, Drewary Brown, Florence Bryant, Robert L. Carter, Julius L. Chambers, William T. Coleman, Earl B. Dickerson, Charles Todd Duncan, William Evans, and George R. Ferguson. Also John Hope Franklin, Anne Hobson Freeman, Charles G. Gomillion, Fred Gray, Calvin C. Green, Jack Greenberg, William C. Harbaugh, C. Alex Harvin, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, A.E. Dick Howard, Beulah Crosby Johnson, Leone Lane, John Lewis, Edward Mazique, Genna Rae McNeil, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Charles Morgan, Jr., E. Frederic Morrow, and Constance Baker Motley. Also James M. Nabrit, Robert J. Norrell, John Norton, Matthew J. Perry, Joseph Rauh, Louis T. Redding, Herbert O. Reid, Walter L. Ridley, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Collins J. Seitz, Arthur Shores, Modjeska Simkins, J. Clay Smith, Juanita Kidd Stout, Alice Jackson Houston Stuart, Laurin A. Thompson, Otto L. Tucker, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Donald Watkins, Joseph C. Watson, F. Palmer Weber, Eugene Williams, and Dr. Stephen Wright.

ArchivalResource: 284 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55620690 View

Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972. Frank Porter Graham papers, 1908-1990.

Title: Frank Porter Graham papers, 1908-1990.

The collection includes correspondence, congressional and campaign files, speeches and other writings, notes, photographs, sound recordings, and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of Frank Porter Graham. Included are materials reflecting his service as president of the University of North Carolina, 1930-1949; U.S. senator from North Carolina, 1949-1950; United Nations representative in the dispute between India and Pakistan; and in various other capacities during the New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War. The papers reflect Graham's interests and activities in education, race relations and civil rights, labor arbitration, southern regional development, international mediation, and other southern and national liberal concerns. The addition of 1994 includes materials relating to "Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham" (1994), a documentary biography film by John B. Wilson, Jr., and Martin Clark for the Arts and Sciences Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television. Included are logs documenting contents of video tapes, typed transcriptions of parts of interviews with Frank Porter Graham and others, and video tapes in various formats. Among the topics covered are civil rights; race relations; education, with emphasis on Graham's career at the University of North Carolina; and Graham's political activities and government service. Included are interviews with several persons involved in the bloody 1950 senatorial campaign. Persons important in these materials include Warren Ashby, William B. Aycock, Augustus Merrimon Burns, Julius L. Chambers, John Hope Franklin, William C. Friday, Alexander Heard, Douglass Hunt, Charles Kuralt, William Edward Leuchtenburg, Benjamin Elijah Mays, Claude Pepper, Julian M. Pleasants, Julian M., John L. Sanders, Terry Sanford, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Mack Smith, William D. Snider, George Brown Tindall, Willis P. Whichard, Tom Wicker, and Edwin Yoder. Materials in other additions are similar to those in the original deposits.

ArchivalResource: About 102400 items (168.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24639158 View

Simkins, George C., 1924-2001. George C. Simkins papers, 1950-1975.

Title: George C. Simkins papers, 1950-1975.

Materials include correspondence; files pertaining to legal cases; news clippings; court documents; publications of the Supreme Court of North Carolina; and photographs of Simkins, Julius L. Chambers, and Dr. Hubert A. Eaton.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70968950 View

Chambers, Julius. The Bill of Rights, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court.

Title: The Bill of Rights, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court. 1964.

ArchivalResource: 80 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505758099 View

Associated Black Charities. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1987-1988.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1987-1988.

Comprises letters from executive director Sullivan Robinson, chairman Donald L. Miller; letter of invitation signed by Leontyne Price, Clifton R. Wharton, and Leon H. Sullivan, letters of congratulation from Delores Wharton, and Julius L. Chambers regarding Anderson's receipt of the Black History Makers Award, 1 Feb. 1988 (with program for the event).

ArchivalResource: 11 items (11 leaves and 1 pamphlet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63561213 View

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Julius Chambers

Title: The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Julius Chambers

Civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers (1936 - 2013 ) worked on the benchmark Supreme Court case, Swann vs. Charlotte Board of Education. Chambers was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/6/2002, in Charlotte, North Carolina. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

OralHistoryResource: Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 4; Total Run Time: 01h 50m 51s

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.220 View

Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne), 1936-. Donald C. Samuels lecture : affirmative action and the myth of 'reverse discrimination' : the meaning of the Constitution [sound recording] / Julius L. Chambers.

Title: Donald C. Samuels lecture : affirmative action and the myth of 'reverse discrimination' : the meaning of the Constitution [sound recording] / Julius L. Chambers.

Julius Chambers, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will discuss the Constitution's influence in the areas of affirmative action and discrimination. Chambers is a member of the North Carolina State Bar Association and lectures at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and at Columbia Law School. [Description from the Sarah Lawrence College Weekly Calendar for May 4-11, 1987].

ArchivalResource: 2 sound cassettes : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63134048 View

Elwood, William A. William A. Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project collection [manuscript], 1984-1989.

Title: William A. Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project collection [manuscript], 1984-1989.

The collection consists of 284 videotapes shot for the Civil Rights Lawyers Project. The tapes were used in the award winning documentary film "The Road to Brown : the untold story of 'the man who killed Jim Crow', " about the life of Charles Hamilton Houston's crusade for civil rights and the events that led to "Brown vs. the Board of Education," and the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared the 'separate but equal' doctrine illegal. Interviewees include H. Brandt Ayers, Jack Bass, Gardner L. Bishop, Delores R. Boyd, Frances Brand, Wiley Branton, Alvin J. Bronstein, Drewary Brown, Florence Bryant, Robert L. Carter, Julius L. Chambers, William T. Coleman, Earl B. Dickerson, Charles Todd Duncan, William Evans, and George R. Ferguson. Also John Hope Franklin, Anne Hobson Freeman, Charles G. Gomillion, Fred Gray, Calvin C. Green, Jack Greenberg, William C. Harbaugh, C. Alex Harvin, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, A.E.Dick Howard, Beulah Crosby Johnson, Leone Lane, John Lewis, Edward Mazique, Genna Rae McNeil, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Charles Morgan, Jr., E. Frederic Morrow, and Constance Baker Motley. Also James M. Nabrit, Robert J. Norrell, John Norton, Matthew J. Perry, Joseph Rauh, Louis T. Redding, Herbert O. Reid, Walter L. Ridley, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Collins J. Seitz, Arthur Shores, Modjeska Simkins, J. Clay Smith, Juanita Kidd Stout, Alice Jackson Houston Stuart, Laurin A. Thompson, Otto L. Tucker, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Donald Watkins, Joseph C. Watson, F. Palmer Weber, Eugene Williams, and Dr. Stephen Wright.

ArchivalResource: 284 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972382 View