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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with J. W. Lemon
J. W. Lemon
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| Other authors / contributors: | Lemon, J. W., 1919-2011, interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded Locust Grove, Georgia 2006 December 11.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Community activist and postal worker James Windel Lemon was born on November 9, 1919 in Locust Grove, Georgia. Lemon graduated from Henry County Training School in McDonough, Georgia in 1939. He worked in an Atlanta pressing plant. He attended Forsyth State Teacher's College in Forsyth, Georgia where he studied to be a plumber. Lemon returned to Locust Grove after school, and during the 1940s, he became the founder and youngest chapter president of the Henry County NAACP where he found himself under regular threats by the Ku Klux Klan. He advocated for the improvement of the County's education system and was instrumental in obtaining better training for teachers in African American schools. He also fought for the rights of African American farmers. Lemon also worked for the U.S. Army Depot credit union. He then worked for the U.S. Post Office for 41 years. Lemon passed away on November 17, 2011 at age 92.
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