Leroy Benjamin Frasier papers, 1955-1980 [manuscript].

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Leroy Benjamin Frasier papers, 1955-1980 [manuscript].

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Correspondence, legal papers, clippings, printed materials, and photographs, 1955-1980, almost all relating to the admission to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1955 of brothers LeRoy Benjamin Frasier, Jr., and Ralph Frasier and John Lewis Brandon, the first African-American undergraduates at the University. The Frasiers were sons of LeRoy Benjamin Fraser of Durham, N.C.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Frasier, Leroy Benjamin.

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Frasier, LeRoy Benjamin, Jr.

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Frasier, Ralph.

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Brandon, John Lewis.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...