Senator Floyd B. McKissick Jr

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• Biography at McKissick and McKissick, Attorneys
• State senator never forgets his roots or his ‘routes.’ Forged work ethic as paperboy Read more here: http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article192361359.html#storylink=cpy
  Colin Warren-Hicks, Herald-Sun, January 2, 2018 The young paperboy’s father, Floyd B. McKissick Sr., was an eminent civil rights advocate working to abolish Jim Crow laws who, in January 1966, would become the national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). McKissick Sr. had been the first African American student admitted into the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law. Later, he had successfully filed lawsuits that enabled his children to enroll in previously all-white schools in Durham. Read more here: http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article192361359.html#storylink=cpy
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  Floyd Bixler McKissick Jr. (born November 21, 1952) is an American attorney and Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate.[1][2] He was appointed to the Senate by Governor Mike Easley on April 18, 2007 to replace the late Jeanne Hopkins Lucas and was later elected and re-elected in his own right. In 2011, he became Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate and chairman of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.[3] McKissick is the son of the late civil rights activist Floyd McKissick.