Center for Civil Rights

The UNC Center for Civil Rights is committed to the advancement of civil rights and social justice, especially in the American South. It fosters empirical and analytical research, sponsors student inquiry and activities and convenes faculty, visiting scholars, policy advocates and practicing attorneys to confront legal and social issues of greatest concern to racial and ethnic minorities, to the poor and to other potential beneficiaries of civil rights advances. The Center's work focuses on education, housing and community development, economic justice and voting rights.

The Center is directed by Julius L. Chambers, who graduated from the UNC School of Law, co-founded the nation's most successful private civil rights law firm and then led the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. as director-counsel before serving as chancellor of North Carolina Central University. Henry Brandis Professor of Law Charles E. Daye, who graduated from Columbia University School of Law, became the first African American to serve as law clerk for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and who served as dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law, serves as the Center's deputy director.

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