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Title: Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina : statement to jurisdiction
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1968, 1971
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.

Title: Benjamin S. Horack Papers, 1968-1971
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1968, 1971
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: Papers of a Charlotte attorney relating to his defense of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts were constitu...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 1, 1997 October 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1997-10-16
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, De facto school segregation, Magnet schools, Race relations, School districts--Planning, School enrollment, School integration, School management and organization, Segregation in education, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: In this 1997 interview, Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts the school system's history of desegregation in light of the filing of Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools earlier that yea...

Title: I got 'im, judge!
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-07-28
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Trials, litigation, etc., Discrimination in education
Description: Topics include: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education; School integration; Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Title: I understand they're passing the ole ball back to you, judge.
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-08-03
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Trials, litigation, etc., Discrimination in education
Description: Topics include: James B. McMillan; Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; School integration

Title: James E. Ferguson II oral history interview, 2001 November 28
Creator: Ferguson, James E. (James Elliott), 1942-
Date Created: 2001-11-28
Subjects--Topical: African American lawyers, Trials, litigation, etc., Racism, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: James Ferguson, a partner at the first integrated law firm in North Carolina, recounts his life's work fighting for civil rights in the state. His involvement with social justice began when he was still in high school, where he helped found the As...

Title: Julius L. Chambers oral history interview, 1997 October 24
Creator: Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne), 1936-2013
Date Created: 1997-10-24
Subjects--Topical: Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc., School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Civil rights, Political and social views
Description: Charlotte attorney Julius L. Chambers, who represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, talks at length about the integration of schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County during the late 196...

Title: On appeal from a decision of a three-judge court in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina : brief of the Attorney General of North Carolina in behalf of the appellants
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1968, 1971
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.

Title: Reginald A. Hawkins oral history interview 1, 2001 June 11
Creator: Hawkins, Reginald Armistice, 1923-2007
Date Created: 2001-06-11
Subjects--Topical: African American political activists, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, African Americans--Segregation, Political participation, Segregation in education, School integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: In this interview, Dr. Reginald Armistice Hawkins discusses his significant involvement in the African American Civil Rights Movement nationally, within the state of North Carolina, and in Mecklenburg County. Mr. Hawkins candidly describes his exp...

Title: Series 2, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals proceedings
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1918, 1984
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: This series primarily comprises printed briefs prepared by the defendants and the plaintiffs for presentation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in May 1970.

Title: Series 3, U.S. Supreme Court proceedings
Creator: Horack, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Shambaugh), 1917-
Date Created: 1968, 1971
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: This series comprises material relating to the appeals of the original Swann suit from the Circuit Court of Appeals, and of the satellite suits from the three judge court, to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decisions of these two courts were appealed ...

Title: Sidney Freeman oral history interview 1, 2003 May 21
Creator: Freeman, Sidney L.
Date Created: 2003-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Education--Political aspects, Trials, litigation, etc., Equality, Race relations, Racism, College teachers, Unitarian churches--Clergy
Description: Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Freeman moved to Charlotte in 1957 to take the...