The NAACP launched one of its first coordinated legal challenges against educational segregation by filing a lawsuit on behalf of Thomas Hocutt, a Black student seeking admission to the University of North Carolina’s pharmacy program. Although the case was dismissed due to a technicality—when a Black college president refused to certify Hocutt’s academic records—it marked the beginning of the NAACP’s legal campaign that would eventually dismantle segregation in higher education.
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