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Da Mayor of Fifth Ward: Stories from the Big Thicket and Houston

By Robert "Bob" E. Lee, Michael Berryhill, Ronald E. Goodwin (Foreword by)
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By Robert "Bob" E. Lee, Michael Berryhill, Ronald E. Goodwin (Foreword by)
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In March 2017, Bob Lee—freelance writer, community organizer, social worker, social justice warrior, child of Houston’s Fifth Ward and its advocate, former Chicago Black Panther—died at the age of 74. Alongside his larger legacy, he left behind this collection of fourteen stories published in the Houston Chronicle’s Sunday Texas Magazine between 1989 and 2000.

Framed by journalist and scholar Michael Berryhill, these youthful recollections and tales of his East Texas relatives reveal Lee’s s...

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