The friendship between Bob Lee, a writer, community leader and social-justice warrior,...
Bob Lee, a grass-roots social worker in Houston's Fifth Ward, is an essayist and co-publisher of"Texas Trailblazers," a series of short biographies of African-American pioneers.The friendship between Bob Lee, a community leader and social-justice warrior, and Michael Berryhill, a journalist and a Texas Southern University professor, was unlikely given their disparate backgrounds.
Lee's essays are recollections and tales of Houston life and his East Texas roots in Jasper, a small town known for the horrific murder of James Byrd Jr., who in 1998 was beaten, chained to a truck and dragged for miles by three white men. Lee spent summers there with his Aunt Crickett and Uncle Dewitt, who taught him about farm life with its sounds of nature, the aroma of his aunt's cooking and his relatives singing.
They were looking for Black people who didn't make it into Texas history books, not that there were many who did. They often discovered them in graveyards, the only place where dates of birth and death were easy to find. They learned to look for large grave markers, which usually commemorated someone prominent in the community whose life story needed to be told.
Educators, Prather said, were trailblazers because they often served as leaders in church and other areas of the community.
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