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J. Kenneth Lee was one of five Black students who enrolled at UNC's law school in Chapel Hill in June 1951, after a 1949 lawsuit in which Thurgood Marshall represented them; their admission desegregated the university. He then practiced civil rights law in Greensboro for more than five decades, and died in 2018 at 94.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: Former student whose lawsuit helped desegregate the University has died at 94
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