GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) --The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says one of its first black students has died. 

• J. Kenneth Lee was one of the first black students to attend and graduate from UNC.
• He and four others joined together for a lawsuit that led to the desegregation of UNC's law school. 
• His funeral was held on Monday.

News outlets report J. Kenneth Lee died last week. A funeral for the 94-year-old was Monday in Greensboro.

The university says in a statement that Lee was one of four African-American students who helped integrate the campus. The four had joined a lawsuit filed in 1949 that led to the desegregation of the university's law school.

Thurgood Marshall was then-director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and represented Lee and the other plaintiffs in the suit. Marshall later became the U.S. Supreme Court's first African-American justice. 

Lee enrolled in the law school in 1951 and became a prominent civil rights attorney in Greensboro after graduating. His career spanned more than five decades.