Tega Cay home once owned by NC civil rights icon Julius Chambers for sale
History buffs, this one’s for you. A home in Tega Cay South Carolina, first owned by the late North Carolina civil rights icon Julius Chambers, is on the market for $995,000.
The five-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home that overlooks Lake Wylie was put up for sale in November, according to several real estate websites.
Built in 1972 on about half an acre, the tri-story home has a boat slip, two-car garage and sits at a cul-de-sac. The Chambers family owned the home until 2017, when they sold the property for $500,000, according to York County property records.
Another fun history fact: prominent architect and Charlotte’s first Black mayor, Harvey Gantt, performed some renovations to the home.
It wasn’t substantial, Gantt recalled in a short interview Monday. It was probably a den that he worked on, but with the renovation being over 50 years ago, the details are fuzzy, Gantt added.
The home was still available as of March 9.
About Julius Chambers
Chambers was a prominent civil rights lawyer who won numerous landmark cases, including the school desegregation case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education.
That 1971 Supreme Court case mandated district-wide busing to aid in fully desegregating schools. Chambers also worked on two job discrimination cases against Duke Power Co., now known as Duke Energy, and Albemarle Paper Co.
He went before the U.S. Supreme Court eight times and won every case. Chambers died in 2013 but his legacy lives on in Charlotte. Along with his namesake.
Charlotte’s Derita Station Post Office was renamed for Chambers in 2021. And the former Zebulon B. Vance High School in University was also renamed for Chambers in 2021.
