Lee Family of Caswell County, N.C., Papers, 1920s-2015

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Lee Family of Caswell County, N.C., Papers, 1920s-2015

1920s-2015

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05592/

The Lee family is an African American family with roots in Caswell County, N.C. The collection documents multiple generations of the Lee family, including J. Kenneth Lee (1923- ), and Dr. Winona L. (Lee) Fletcher (1926- ), and their siblings. J. Kenneth Lee is a lawyer in Greensboro, N.C., and was one of the first two African American students to attend the School of Law at the University of North Carolina in 1951. Dr. Winona L. Fletcher is a theater educator and professional and a family historian. The collection includes biographical information about family members, especially research and supplementary materials for the publication of two Lee family books: No Way: Memoirs of J. Kenneth Lee and Offshoots: The H. F. Lee Family Book. Winona L. Fletcher's career in theater, J. Kenneth Lee's career in law, and Olivia Fletcher Baylor's childhood and adolescence are also documented. Materials include correspondence, photographs, oral histories and other recordings of family stories, funeral programs, news clippings, family member profiles, and printed materials.

12.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 6000 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 11664552

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Fletcher, Winona L.

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Theater educator and author; b. Winona Lee 1925; married married Joseph G. Fletcher 1952. From the description of Winona Lee Fletcher papers, [ca. 1951]-1978. (Kentucky State University). WorldCat record id: 70972072 Dr. Winona Fletcher taught theatre and drama at Kentucky State College (later University) from 1951 to 1978 and at Indiana University from 1978 to 1994. From 1971-73, while on leave from Kentucky State, she came to IU to assist in the development of...

Baylor, Olivia Fletcher

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Olivia Fletcher Baylor is the granddaughter of Winona Lee Fletcher....

Lee (Family : Caswell County, N.C.)

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The Lee family is an African American family with roots in Caswell County, N.C. Members of the Lee family include J. Kenneth Lee (1923-2018) and Dr. Winona Evelyn Lee Fletcher (1926- ), as well as their siblings, Alvis Lee (1916-2004), Ann Lee (1918- ), Bessie Lee Ingram Draw (1914-1991), Henry Franklin Lee (1903-1983), James Alphonso Lee (1900-1967), Lillian Lee (1911-1999), Pauline (Polly) Lee Tyler (1921-2013), and Viola Lee (1905-1995); and Fletcher's daughter Betty Anne (Fletcher) Baylor (1...

Johnson C. Smith University

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Founded April 1867 at a meeting to the Catawba Presbytery, Biddle Memorial Institute was chartered in 1869 as a private men's institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church; named for Major Henry Biddle; changed name in 1876 as Biddle University; in 1923 name changed to Johnson C. Smith University; became a four year college in 1924; women were admitted to the senior division in 1932 and to the freshman class in 1941 making the college fully co-educational. From the description ...

Lee, J. Kenneth (John Kenneth), 1923-2018

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J. Kenneth Lee, lawyer of Greensboro, N.C., who became one of the first two African Americans to attend the University of North Carolina. Lee received his Juris Doctoris degree in 1952 and was subsequently involved in over 1,700 civil rights lawsuits during his 38 years of legal practice. From the description of J. Kenneth Lee papers, 1949-1994 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 34075012 J. Kenneth Lee was born in Charlotte, N.C., on 1 November 1923, the thirteen...