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 […]