Fighter of racism. Mentor to many. J. Kenneth Lee 'stood at the front of the line all the time'

Posted Jul 30, 2018
Before he was a U.S. Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall had represented J. Kenneth Lee as a student in the fight to integrate UNC's Law School. As a lawyer, Lee would represent five black girls in the fight to attend the all-white Gillespie Park Elementary in 1957, making Greensboro one of the first cities in the Southeast to desegregate its public schools. (Greensboro News & Record)

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