Lena Olive Smith was a prominent civil rights lawyer and activist during the 1920s and 1930s. She made major contributions toward securing civil rights for minorities in the Twin Cities. Smith was born in 1885 in Lawrence, Kansas and moved with her family to Minneapolis in 1906. After completing her primary education, she enrolled at […]

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