Title	[Photograph of Benjamin L. Smith]
Date	1955
Date approximate?	yes
Biographical/historical note	Benjamin Lee Smith was born February 6, 1893 in, Caldwell County, N.C. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1916, and his M.A. from Duke in 1937. He served as superintendent of schools in the western North Carolina cities of Forest City, Rutherford-Spindale, and Shelby before assuming the same position in Greensboro, N.C., in 1935. His twenty-three year tenure in Greensboro included the years immediately following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ordering desegregation of public schools. In 1959, he participated in the National Civil Rights hearing on school integration. Smith died in 1961. Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro is named for him.
Subject headings	Segregation in education--United States Race relations
Topics	School desegregation, 1954-1958
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This photographic portrait of Benjamin L. Smith was taken around 1955, by an unindentified photographer. Smith was Greensboro's Superintendent of School at this time.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Original dimensions	4" x 5"
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Source collection	RL.01210 Benjamin Lee Smith Papers
Finding aid link	http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/smithbenjaminlee/
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Object ID	Duke_RL.01210.0964
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884367489

[Photograph of Benjamin L. Smith]

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