McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991

found: His Genocide U.S.A., 1967:t.p. (Floyd B. McKissick) p. 2 (Floyd Bixler McKissick; b. 3-9-22, Asheville, N.C.; lawyer, civil rights worker, National Director of CORE, 1966-)

found: Marquis who's who on the web, June 3, 2010(Floyd Bixler McKissick; b. Mar. 9, 1922, Asheville, N.C., d. Apr. 2, 1991)

found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(McKissick, Floyd B.; civil rights activist, lawyer; born 03 March 1922 in Ashville, North Carolina, United States; completed Morehouse College; enrolled in North Carolina College (NCC) School of Law, but was later admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's law school (UNC); sergeant in Europe during World War II; brought suit to integrate the law school at Chapel Hill in resulting case, McKissick v. Carmichael, sponsored by the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which led to the desegregation of UNC's law school (1951); established law practice in Durham; sued the Durham public school system to allow his daughter to attend an all-white public school; successfully sued the AFL-CIO's Tobacco Workers International for equal-standing union memberships, regardless of race; became director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (1966); was appointed North Carolina state district judge (1990); died 28 April 1991 in Soul City, North Carolina, United States)

found: NCpedia WWW site, July 29, 2016(McKissick Enterprises, headed by civil rights activist Floyd B. McKissick, financed the development of an African American community in Soul City, N.C.) - http://ncpedia.org/geography/warren/soul-city