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Danita Mason-Hogans

Photo: 1997 Chapel Hill, NC

Bridging the Gap founder, Danita Mason-Hogans

Image from an after school program in 1997 built by Danita Mason-Hogans and board member Bonita Joyce to close to achievement gap between Black and white students.

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These young men were among the first African-American undergraduate students to successfully challenge racial segregation at North Carolina's flagship public university. Frasier; his brother, Ralph; and John Lewis Brandon were students at Hillside High School in Durham when they applied to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1955. They were rejected until a federal court judge ordered UNC-Chapel Hill to admit them.

 

(Photo Credit: Roland Giduz Photographic Collection/The Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill via Associated Press)

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Photo: 1955 Chapel Hill, NC

From left, LeRoy Frasier, John Lewis Brandon and Ralph Frasier on the steps of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. 

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Students and teachers, circa 1905 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Students and teachers, circa 1910 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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