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1951 - Floyd McKissick becomes the first black student
to enter UNC Law School.
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| In 1951 UNC Chapel Hill admits its
first back 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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