Final living member of the first group of Black undergraduate students at UNC dies at 85

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — One of the first Black undergraduate students to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has died.

Ralph Frasier was 85 years old when he died on May 8. He was the last living member of the first three Black undergrad students at UNC.

All three of those first students were from Hillside High School in Durham. They were Frasier, his brother Leroy and John Lewis Brandon.

The three applied to UNC the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate but equal schools were unconstitutional. The university rejected all three of them and the UNC Board of Trustees publicly stated that the Brown ruling did not apply to colleges and universities.

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