Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina's flagship public university in the 1950s, has died. Frasier, who had been in declining health over the past several months, died May 8 at age 85 at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, according to son Ralph Frasier Jr.
At football games, they were seated in a section with custodial workers, who were Black. And the three lived on their own floor of a section of a dormitory. “Those days were probably the most stressful of my life,” Frasier told The Associated Press in 2010 when the three visited Chapel Hill to be honored. 'I can’t say that I have many happy memories.” The brothers studied three years at Chapel Hill before Ralph left for the Army and LeRoy for the Peace Corps.
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