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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. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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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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.
Back to TopCorrespondence, 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.
Folder 1 |
Correspondence |
Folder 2 |
Legal Papers |
Folder 3 |
Printed Material |
Scrapbook of clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, and letters pertaining to the Frasiers at UNC and their subsequent careers, 1954-1970. Materials were compiled by LeRoy Benjamin Frasier, Sr. for his sons, and given to them with a explanatory letter, 1971 (see folder 1), reminiscing about their experiences.
Oversize Volume SV-4375/1 |
Scrapbook, 1954-1970 |
Image Folder PF-4375/1 |
Group photographs of LeRoy Benjamin Frasier, Ralph Frasier, and John L. Brandon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1955Includes a group photograph with Professor W. Robert Mann, professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Image P-4375/4 |
Photograph of mask of Ralph Frasier, 1980s.Missing as of April 2013 |