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1951 - Floyd McKissick Enters UNC Law School
Event Date:
1951
Event Type:
Modern Era Begins 1946-1959
Floyd McKissick enters UNC Law School:
- In 1951 UNC Chapel Hill admits its first black students. Floyd McKissick, an Asheville native, enrolls as the only black student in the Law School.
- Later McKissick becomes one of the South's leading civil-rights workers and leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality.
- In the 1970s, McKissick is instrumental in the founding of Soul City, a federally financed "new community" in Warren County.
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