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The International Civil Rights Museum and Womble Carlyle

February 1, 2010

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The Greensboro News & Record interviewed attorney Jackie Camp about her work with the museum in a recent front-page story.
 
GREENSBORO, N.C.—The International Civil Rights Center and Museum opened its doors February 1st, 2010, and attorneys from Womble Carlyle were on hand to celebrate an event 50 years in the making. Womble Carlyle has been actively involved in the museum project, offering both financial support and leadership to this worthwhile endeavor.
The firm’s involvement in the museum project includes:
  • Womble Carlyle attorney Peter Duffley worked to secure $14 million in historic and new markets tax credits for the museum. These tax credits, combined with private donations, gave the museum the money it needed to complete construction.
Duffley began work on the tax credits in January 2009. The eight-month process was a complex one, as Duffley lined up investors for the tax credits and created checks and balances to ensure that the money was being properly spent.
  • Greensboro attorneys Jackie Camp and Jack Hicks both serve on the board of the 1960 Society. The 1960 Society is actively raising operating capital to keep the museum running once it opens.
  • As a firm, Womble Carlyle has contributed $30,000 to the museum’s capital campaign. In addition, the firm is sponsoring a table at the museum’s opening gala.
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum is located in the old Woolworth’s building in downtown Greensboro, where the lunch counter sit-in movement began in 1960.

Fox 8 News interviewed Camp, Duffley and Hicks about their efforts in support of the museum. Click here to see the news segment.

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