Lee, Elwyn

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Date
2011-10-26
Main contributors
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
Summary
This interview with Elwyn Lee, the current Vice President for Community Relations and Institutional Access (as of Fall 2013),  recounts his roots and subsequent return to the city of Houston, especially focused on his involvement with the birth of the African American Studies program at the University of Houston.  Lee, who first came to Houston less than a year after his birth in 1949, recalls growing up in the Third Ward during the increasingly racially polarized '50s and '60s. His experiences at Yale during the Civil Rights era (such as seeing the rise of an African American studies program, and being influenced by the Voting Rights Act) would inspire him to return to his hometown, where he was instrumental in getting the African American Studies program off the ground as one of its first directors. Interviewers: Ezell Wilson and Natalie Garza.
Genre
interviews
Subjects
African Americans; Civil rights; Lee, Elwyn
Location
Houston, Texas
Collection
Oral Histories from the Houston History Project
Unit
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
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Collection

University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Houston History Archives
Oral Histories from the Houston History Project
Other Identifier
Preservation Location: ark:/84475/pm4368kf782
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