1965 - Swann Case Is Opened

January 19, 1965 - The Swann Case is opened.

• Lawyer Julius Chambers files a class action suit to desegregate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system. 
• The suit is dismissed by a federal judge. 
• Plaintiffs Rev. Darius Swann and his wife, Vera, are Johnson C. Smith University graduates and former missionaries in India. 
• They want their son James to attend an integrated school near their home, but James is assigned to an all-black school farther away. The case will later be heard before a new judge.

Listen: Darius Swann talks about his son growing up in India.