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Granger, Lester B. (Lester Blackwell), 1896-1976

Biography:

As national executive secretary of the National Urban League from 1941 to 1961, Lester Granger was a champion of integration and equal treatment for African Americans. Granger and King became acquainted in 1957, and the following year they and other civil rights leaders met with President Dwight Eisenhower to push for civil rights reform. -- King Encyclopedia, Stanford University

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century Information: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library)
  • Photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower at a White House meeting to discuss civil rights issues (Black-and-white photographs)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights leaders visiting with president Dwight D. Eisenhower and A. Philip Randolph, vice president of the AFL-CIO speaks to reporters about the visit, Washington D.C., 1958 June 23 (Moving images)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights leaders visiting with president Dwight D. Eisenhower and A. Philip Randolph, vice president of the AFL-CIO speaks to reporters about the visit, Washington D.C., 1958 June 23 (News)