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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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1923–2018 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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J. Kenneth Lee (1923 to 2018), a Black lawyer in North Carolina, left papers covering 1949 to 1994, collection 4782 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern his legal career alongside the integration of higher education in the state, civil rights work for African Americans, and the study of law at Chapel Hill, where Harvey E. Beech is named with him.
Donna Nixon's article on the desegregation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which began at the School of Law. Subjects include Harvey E. Beech, James L. Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd B. McKissick and James R. Walker Jr. Published in 2019 at Chapel Hill by the North Carolina Law Review Association and shelved with the law collection.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lee, J. Kenneth (John Kenneth), 1923-2018.
A history produced by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the African American students who first integrated the campus through its School of Law. Harvey E. Beech, J. Kenneth Lee and Floyd B. McKissick are among the people discussed, and the account sits within twentieth century civil rights and race relations in North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lee, J. Kenneth (John Kenneth), 1923-2018.
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