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| Dr. Leslie-Burl McLemore is a Mississippi activist who sparked a boycott of his high school in 1960, demanding that the school library include books about black history. He has played a variety of roles as an activist serving the people of Mississippi and the nation in many capacities. Over the course of his life, he has been a field secretary for SNCC, vice chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's original delegation to the 1964 Democratic Convention, a member of Jackson’s city council, an interim mayor of Jackson, and a political science professor at Jackson State University. | |||
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