BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " FLOYD B. McKISSICK " WAS AN AMERICAN LEGAL PROFESSIONAL, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND WAS THE FIRST BLACK RECIPIENT OF A LAW DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK HEROES "

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Floyd  B.  McKissick Biography

Legal Professional, Civil Rights Activist (1922–1991)

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QUICK FACTS

NAME

Floyd B. McKissick

OCCUPATION

Legal Professional, Civil Rights Activist

BIRTH DATE

March 9, 1922

DEATH DATE

April 28, 1991

EDUCATION

North Carolina Central University,University of North Carolina Law School

PLACE OF BIRTH

Asheville, North Carolina

PLACE OF DEATH

Soul City, North Carolina

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Floyd B. McKissick was the first black recipient of a law degree from the University of North Carolina. He specialized in civil rights cases.

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Synopsis

Floyd B. McKissick was born on March 9, 1922, in Asheville, North Carolina. He was the first African American to receive a law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School. He specialized in hundreds of civil rights cases in the '60s. In 1966, he served as national chairman for the Congress of Racial Equality. He developed a planned community called Soul City before his death in 1991.

Profile

Civil rights leader, lawyer, business executive. Born in Asheville, North Carolina. After receiving a bachelor's degree at North Carolina Central University, with the legal help of Thurgood Marshall McKissick entered the University of North Carolina Law School at Chapel Hill and became its first black recipient of a law degree (1951).

McKissick practised in Durham, NC (1952??66) and specialized in hundreds of civil rights cases brought before the courts in the 1960s. He was legal counsel for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) before becoming CORE's national chairman (1966).

McKissick left CORE (1968) to launch Floyd B McKissick Enterprises, Inc, a corporation involved in organizing and financing businesses. An arm of that company, Warren Regional Planning Corp, was formed to develop Soul City in North Carolina. He wrote Three-fifths of a Man (1968).