Floyd Bixler McKissick: First Black Student Admitted to the UNC Chapel Hill’s Law SchoolJae Jones, March 28, 2018; Black Then - Discovering Our History Floyd Bixler McKissick became the first African-American student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Law School. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James L. Farmer, Jr. McKissick was a supporter of Black Power and turned CORE into a more radical movement. In 1968, he left CORE to found Soul City in Warren County, North Carolina.