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1984 - Julius Chambers Gets Key to the City
Event Date:
August 12, 1984
Event Type:
80s Charlotte 1980-1989
August 12, 1984 - Chambers gets the key to the city.
- Mayor Harvey Gantt gives the key to the city to civil rights attorney Julius Chambers.
- This award is presented to Chambers just before he leaves Charlotte to take over the helm of the prestigious NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
- In 1993, after nearly a decade there, he will return to North Carolina to his alma mater, NC Central University, as chancellor.
- Julius Chambers (right) and wife, Vivian, with Mayor Gantt.
Listen: The ceremony
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