Ralston, Elreta Melton AlexanderPosted in Articles, Biography, History, Law, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2021-10-02 02:13Z by Steven |
Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander
NCPedia
State Library of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
2013
Virginia L. Summey, Historian, Author, and Faculty Fellow
Lloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Elreta Melton Alexander was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher, and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was raised by her educated, middle-class parents to be a leader in the community. The descendant of two white grandparents, her bi-racialism formed her early awareness of colorism within the African-American community…
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