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July 28, 1934: Howard Nathaniel Lee is born on a sharecropper's farm in the outskirts of Lithonia, Georgia. (timeline through 2009)
- Howard Lee: Child of Georgia (57 min)
Episode 1 of Biographical Conversations with Howard N. Lee focuses on the future senator's childhood in Georgia. Born on a sharecropper farm in Lithonia, young Howard Nathaniel Lee eventually moved with his family to a small house in town. Five years old at the time, Howard Lee shared a room with his parents, grandparents, and three brothers.
Aired: 11/07/2010
- Howard Lee: From Korea to Chapel Hill (57 min)
Episode 2 of Biographical Conversations with Howard N. Lee traces the future educational director from his army days to his successful and barrier-breaking mayoral candidacy. In 1959, freshly armed with a college degree, Private Howard N. Lee traveled from basic training in Fort Bening, GA, to Fort Sam Houston in Texas for six weeks of medical training.
Aired: 11/14/2010
- Howard Lee: Serving the State (57 min)
Part three of Biographical Conversations with Howard N. Lee explores his three terms as mayor Chapel Hill, which culminated in the public bus system he brought to the city in 1973; his ground-breaking selection as secretary of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources in Governor Hunt's state cabinet in 1977; and his terms as state senator.
Aired 11/21/2010