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163 U.S. 537 (1896) PLESSY v. FERGUSON. No. 210. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 13, 1896. Decided May 18, 1896. ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. 540*540 Mr. A.W. Tourgee and Mr. S.F. Phillips for plaintiff in…

134 F.Supp. 589 (1955) Leroy Benjamin FRASIER, Jr., et al., v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA et al. No. 260-D. United States District Court M. D. North Carolina. Argued September 10, 1955. Decided September 16, 1955.…

Julius Chambers was a member of the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors from 1972 as a representative of his alma mater, North Carolina Central University. In 1977 he resigned out of protest over the Board’s handling of desegregation.…

William “Bill” Friday served as president of the UNC system from 1957-1986. Friday has 25 interviews as part of the Southern Oral History Program. The following excerpts are taken from a 1991 interview, where Friday discusses the UNC systems…

Four African American students sit outside of North Carolina State University's D.H. Hill Library in 1970.

African American students at NC State walk, hand in hand, from the Memorial Bell Tower.

This photograph contains images of five African American students posing in front of the NC State Memorial Tower in 1970.

This is a photograph of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now known as NC State) class of 1898. Teisaku Sugiasita, State's first Asian student, is the first person on the back row.

This March 3, 1969, article in The Technician describes a student and non-academic worker demonstration in defense of NC State's Physical Plant workers. Members of the Society of Afro-American Culture and its president, Eric Moore, played a large…

In April, 1969, the Society of Afro-American Culture, as well as students from Shaw University and St. Augustine's College, marched on Chancellor John T. Caldwell's home in support of Physical Plant workers. This partial Technician article describes…