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Monday, December 28, 2015

Meadowlark Lemon, legendary Harlem Globetrotter, dead at 83

When Meadow George Lemon walked into the Ritz Theater in Wilmington, N.C., at age 11, he didn’t have much going for him. He was born a second-class citizen in the Jim Crow South. His folks had split up, leaving his aunt and uncle to raise him - a skinny boy with a funny name “not at the top of anyone’s priority list,” as he later wrote. And, for a kid who looked forward to splurging 25 cents on westerns and adventure flicks, there was no clear way out.

Then, in the early 1940s, Lemon saw the newsreel that changed his life.

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Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article51848380.html#storylink=cpy
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 28, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    Thank you for the smiles and family memories. R.I.P.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 28, 2015 at 3:55 PM

    Another great that has left us. He was always one of my favorites growing up. RIP, Meadowlark.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 28, 2015 at 3:56 PM

    God bless the Meadow Lark for bringing so much joy into the lives of others. Throughout my childhood he served as a role model and an inspiration. He will be missed, but never forgotten. R.I.P.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 28, 2015 at 7:16 PM

    He meant a lot to me as a kid. Goodbye, good sir, and thank you.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 28, 2015 at 10:02 PM

    thank you meadow

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  6. AnonymousDecember 28, 2015 at 11:11 PM

    Thank you for bringing much joy. RIP

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