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Jean Fairfax was instrumental in establishing U-M’s Lester House, the first interracial house for women on campus. (Top to bottom) Lester House residents in 1943; Lester House residents in 1940, including Fairfax (third row from bottom, far right).
Exclusion Did Not Deter Her
Jean Fairfax’s story emerges as part of the Bentley’s new long-term project on the history of African Americans at the University of Michigan. By Brian Williams
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