Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the last surviving member of the trio of African American youths who desegregated the undergraduate student body at UNC-Chapel Hill in the 1950s, has died at age 85.
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Last student who helped integrate the University of North Carolina’s undergraduate body has died
Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the final surviving member of the trio of African American youths who desegregated the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university in the 1950s, has died at age 85.
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2 of 3 Men Who in 1955 Helped Desegregate UNC University Have Now Died
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two of the three men who successfully challenged racial segregation as undergraduates at North Carolina’s flagship university have now died in less than a month. John Lewis Brandon, 80, died Tuesday at a hospital outside Houston of complications from cancer, his son Christopher Brandon said Wednesday. FILE- This September 1955 file […]
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LeRoy Frasier, Helped Desegregate UNC University, Dies at 80
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — LeRoy Frasier, who along with his brother and another high school student was among the first African-American undergraduate students to successfully challenge racial segregation at North Carolina’s flagship public university, has died at the age of 80. (From l.) John Brandon, and Leroy and Ralph Frasier, brothers, successfully challenged racial segregation […]