A front-page article about the various "school disturbances" that followed efforts to desegregate Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools.

Excerpt:

The Chambers law firm handled the defense for 58 students charged in the incidents and 28-year-old [Charles] Becton was involved with the majority of these. He often worked against [Assistant Solicitor Irwin] Coffield. . . .

Of the 58 students the Chambers firm defended, all but nine cases have been disposed of in District Court. Two went to Superior Court on district appeal and seven others were routed there on probable cause findings in preliminary hearings.