early student group

African Americans and Integration

The Civil Rights Movement both on and off campus and the university's first black students and faculty.

Enter the exhibit

  1. The first black law students in 1951: Harvey Beech, James Lassiter, Kenneth Lee, and Floyd B. McKissick Sr.
  2. Oscar Diggs on the left
  3. Leroy Frasier, John Lewis Brandon, and Ralph Frasier (left to right), on the steps of South Building after completing registration, 15 September 1955.
  4. Picketing by students in 1963
  5. Black and white sit-in demonstrators, 1963
  6. Quinton Baker outside a Chapel Hill store in December 1963 after the owner poured ammonia and bleach on him
  7. Holy Week fast, March 1964, post office lawn, Franklin Street. Left to right: Patrick Cusick '63, LaVert Taylor, John Dunne '65, and James Foushee
  8. Roberta and Blyden Jackson
  9. Trudier Harris
  10. 1963 soccer team
  11. Charles Scott
  12. Preston Dobbins, left, and Reggie Hawkins, right, founders of the Black Student Movement
  13. Police around Lenoir Hall
  14. Commencement 2004
  15. Richard Epps
  16. Karen Stevenson
  17. Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black History and Culture

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