LEE ALCORN: A TRUE CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE

By: Natiece Ford “Lee was a constant regardless. I think that will be his legacy.” Th at is how Commisioner of Dallas John Wiley Price described Civil Rights activist Lee Al-corn. Lee Alcorn has been a pillar in his community fighting discrimination at every turn, with many de-scribing him as in your face about the issues. Pastor Kyev Tatum of New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church described Mr. Alcorn as “the greatest Civil Rights leader in Texas.” For decades Lee Alcorn was a warrior for equality, fearlessly challenging deep racism in Grand Prairie and beyond. D. Lee Alcorn, born July 23rd 1937 in Ledbetter, Texas and served in the United States Air Force as a Cryptologist for 4 years, afterwards he would go on to graduate from the University of Texas Medi-cal School of Radiology and Technology where he would go on to head the Radiology Department of the VA hospital encouraging Black men and women to become radiology techs ensuring that there would be people of color in positions where there otherwise would have been none. In 1995 Lee Alcorn would retire as the Ra-diology Manager from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Mr. Alcorn would go on to...