1media/image56_thumb.png2021-08-26T12:00:43-07:00Grant Glass107afcf8873f422898a9c2e07c49ae3f625fc644373541Photograph in Law School First—The African Americans Who Integrated UNC-Chapel Hill. Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020, https://integration.law.unc.edu/plain2021-08-26T12:00:43-07:00Grant Glass107afcf8873f422898a9c2e07c49ae3f625fc644
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation was legal so long as equal facilities were provided for both races. Because the law school’s facilities at the North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina Central University) did not equal those at Chapel Hill, a federal court ruled in March 1951 that the white school must admit Black students. This ruling also applied to the medical school as North Carolina funded only one medical school. It wasn’t until the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed all forms of segregation in the public schools in 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and federal courts ordered the admission of Black undergraduates to the University the following year that Black Americans were admitted as undergraduates, although enrollment remained low for many years.
Nixon, Donna L. Law School First – The African Americans Who Integrated UNC-Chapel Hill. Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020,https://integration.law.unc.edu/.
