{"id":5165,"date":"2023-03-20T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:59:57","slug":"mr-lee-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=5165","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Lee Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:97px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" id=\"block-b5a91d9f-a8b0-4eff-bf00-d4845df2c2e8\" style=\"color:#d11d00\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#015039\" class=\"has-inline-color\">They Called Him Mister Lee<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_9652-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5166\" style=\"width:359px;height:269px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_9652-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_9652-1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Lift Every Voice and Sing<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was standing room only at the Takoma Park Community on February 26 for the screening of the film They Called Him &#8220;Mister Lee.&#8221; Jointly sponsored by Historic Takoma and the Takoma Park Recreation Department, the event featured the audience singing &#8220;Lift Every Voice and Sing,&#8221; the Black National Anthem, led by Lorraine Gibbs and Cammille Taylor from the God Glorified Church of God in Christ on Geneva Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel discussion followed the screening, with community members featured in the film (Patricia Matthews (Lee Jordan&#8217;s daughter), Otis Matthews, and Cedric Boatman), oral historian Ali Kahn, and filmmaker Michel Fincham. More about this film and the African American Oral History Project can be found at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0763ce5a358097d6258cce291&amp;id=0109fa7879&amp;e=9c3f0e466c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">historictakoma.org<\/a><\/strong>. The films from the Project can be viewed on YouTube at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0763ce5a358097d6258cce291&amp;id=d43f68f6e0&amp;e=9c3f0e466c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They Called Him &#8220;Mr. Lee&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0763ce5a358097d6258cce291&amp;id=12f39dc158&amp;e=9c3f0e466c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doing Oral History: An Introduction<\/a><\/strong>. The City of Takoma Park is producing a video of the February 26 event; a link will be posted on our website when it is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?page_id=1247\" target=\"_blank\">See Past Features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-african-american"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}