Desegregating Carolina: McKissick vs. Carmichael

Program Type:

Community History

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Harvey Beech, James Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd McKissick, and James Robert Walker enrolled in the UNC School of Law in 1951, following a court order that said the Law School must admit Black students. They became the first African American students at Carolina. 

Join us at Chapel Hill Public Library for a reception followed by a program featuring:

  • Poetry from Nick Courmon
  • Attorney Floyd McKissick, Jr.
  • Attorney Ralph Frasier, Jr. 

  • Donna Nixon, Law Librarian and Legal Research Specialist

  • Representative Rodney Pierce
  • NCCU Law Professor Irving Joyner
  • UNC Law Professor Gene Nichol
  • UNC Law Professor and Director of the Center for Civil Rights
  • Professor Donovan Livingston, Chair of the Carolina Black Caucus and current Chapel Hill Poet Laureate
  • Samuel Scarborough, Co-Chair of UNC’s Black Student Movement Political Action Committee
  • Panel moderator, Professor Emeritus Lloyd Kramer

Presented in partnership with Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition, UNC Center for Civil Rights, Orange County Office of Civil Rights & Civic Life, and the Community History Program at Chapel Hill Public Library.