J. Kenneth Lee, former student whose lawsuit helped desegregate the University, dies at 94
Posted Jul 28, 2018
J. Kenneth Lee, one of four African-American students who joined a lawsuit that led to the desegregation of the UNC School of Law, has died at age 94..Lee was part of the lawsuit filed in 1949. He and the other plaintiffs were represented by Thurgood Marshall, then director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and later associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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