Lester Blackwell
Granger (1896-1976), born in Newport News, Virginia, received
a B.A. (1918) from Dartmouth College. After returning from
military service in World War I, Granger became an industrial
relations officer of the Newark, New Jersey chapter of the
Urban League. He served as the organization's national executive
director (1941-1961).
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
vol. 4: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958,
ed. Clayborne Carson, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Virginia
Shadron, Kieran Taylor (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University
of California Press, 2000), p.425n. |
