Charlotte historians say impacts of the 1971 Supreme Court case Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education are still ...

James Ferguson II, a Charlotte civil rights lawyer whose landmark cases desegregated schools nationwide died July 21, 2025 at ...

ASHEVILLE - Trailblazing civil rights attorney and Asheville native James "Fergie" Ferguson died the morning of July 21, his ...

North Carolinians on Monday mourned the death of civil rights attorney James Ferguson, whose work helped desegregate schools ...

A local civil rights attorney, James Ferguson II, has passed away. He was 82. His long legal career paved the way for others ...

James Ferguson II, a prominent civil rights lawyer from Charlotte known for his role in desegregating schools nationwide, has ...

Here's a timeline of Ferguson's activism, drawn from Charlotte Observer archives, his biography on the Ferguson, Chambers & ...

“There was an uproar from those who were opposed to the desegregation of the school, violent uproars. Students were armed, ...

Ferguson, an Asheville native who was born in the Jim Crow South in 1942, co-founded North Carolina’s first interracial law ...