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Floyd McKissick  

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  • Floyd B. McKissick, the first African American to study law at the University of North Carolina, used his skills on behalf of desegregation and civil rights over a lifetime. An early member and the second national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), he later became an advocate of Black power. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Education; McKissick, Floyd (1922–1991)]

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