In 1950, a guy named LeVonne Chambers, from Mt. Gilead, NC, was looking forward to “going off” to a solid boarding school for Black students called the Laurinburg Institute. He was anticipating it because he was quite familiar with the inferior education that could be had at the Black Peabody High School in Troy,NC,  mainly through both a lack of teachers and resources. In some cases, older students, who themselves were not up-to-par, were teaching younger students at Peabody. This gave added incentive for LeVonne to attend Laurinburg, especially since he had two older siblings telling him how good the school was. LeVonne’s father, though a 7th grade drop-out, still had both the intelligence and chutzpah to own his own small garage as a mechanic. Mr. Chambers had a regular White customer who provided him with consistent business, who needed a large truck repaired. Over a rather lengthy duration, and after ordering a number of parts, the truck was repaired. The White customer gave the pretense that he was going to pay the bill, but “bailed” on it, as he was driving the truck off, leaving Mr. William Chambers holding an empty bag. That $2,000 bill was equal to the yearly 1950 salary of a White, Montgomery County, NC person. Mr. Chambers sought out several White attorneys in town, hoping to get his just due, and all of them refused to represent him against the White customer, and all addressed him with an air of righteous indignation. His was a common bewildering experience that Black folks went through at the time, which was to be addressed with hatred for having the audacity to want to be treated fairly, in addition to simply wanting compensation for work expended and service rendered. As a result, Mr. Chambers had to tell his son, LeVonne, that he would not be going to Laurinburg Institute, since the family did not have the expected funds. Later, LeVonne would tell folks that was the moment that he decided that he would someday become a lawyer. No one at the time knew that “LeVonne” would later adopt the name “Julius,” and make it his own. Mr. Julius Chambers took the motivation of that family injustice and humiliation to ultimately become one of the greatest lawyers in American History. (Pgs. 12 & 13)