4th Annual N.C. Children's Lifetime Legacy Award Event, honoring Julius Chambers, June 2009

Action for Children North Carolina honored Julius L. Chambers on June 2, 2009 with the fourth annual North Carolina Children's Lifetime Legacy Award. Mr. Chambers is a historic national figure whose landmark civil rights legal work helped provide equal access for the nation's children and young people. Mr. Chambers' work includes Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, desegregating public schools.

For more than 45 years, Julius Chambers has been one of the nation's leading civil rights attorneys and a champion for education. He was integral in helping desegregate public schools and, as head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Mr. Chambers helped shape civil rights laws in America. He also has profoundly impacted higher education as chancellor at his alma mater, North Carolina Central University, and as a professor of law.

Action for Children North Carolina would like to thank all our sponsors and guests for making the 2009 Children's Lifetime Legacy Award event a resounding success!

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