He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.
He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.
James E. Ferguson II in 2000 in front of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C. “We weren’t practicing law in the abstract,” he said. “We were the legal arm of the civil rights movement in North Carolina.”
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