Specializing In Civil Rights Cases, This Was The First Black Recipient Of A Law Degree From The University of North Carolina

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Specializing In Civil Rights Cases, This Was The First Black Recipient Of A Law Degree From The University of North Carolina

Floyd B. McKissick was born on March 9, 1922, in Asheville, North Carolina. He was the first African American to receive a law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School. He specialized in hundreds of civil rights cases in the '60s. In 1966, he served as national chairman for the Congress of Racial […]

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