CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Members of the Mecklenburg County Bar Association held a memorial Thursday to pay tribute to James Ferguson.
The ceremony for the late civil rights lawyer fittingly took place inside the Mecklenburg County courthouse. Ferguson died on July 21, 2025, at 81.
He was a key figure in the legal world during the civil rights era in North Carolina, and in the fight against South Africa’s Apartheid era in the 1980s…