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| Size | 95 items |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Creator | Frasier, Leroy Benjamin. |
| Language | English |
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Scope and Content
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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Series 1. Papers, 1955-1983.
Correspondence, legal papers, clippings, and printed materials pertaining to Ralph Frasier, LeRoy Frasier, Jr., and John Lewis Brandon. Correspondence, chiefly from 1955, is largely congratulatory letters to Ralph and LeRoy, Jr., or to their father, LeRoy Benjamin ("Lee") Frasier for winning the lawsuit that allowed them to enter the University of North Carolina and beginning classes that fall. Legal papers pertain to the case that the Frasiers won on appeal in the Supreme Court. The final folder contains printed material pertaining mainly to the career of Ralph Frasier, clippings about both brothers, stamps from Malawi where LeRoy, Jr., served in the Peace Corps, and a few items relating to the Frasiers while they were students at UNC.
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Series 2. Scrapbook, 1954-1970.
Scrapbook of clippings accumulated by LeRoy Benjamin Frasier, Sr., for his sons and given to them with a explanatory letter, 1971 (see folder 1), reminiscing about his sons' experiences.
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Series 3. Pictures, 1955-1980s.
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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