Kendleton
Jan 27, 2022
2 minutes
By Brooke A. Lewis
eronica Harris lives not far from Willie Melton Boulevard, the Kendleton road named in honor of her late grandfather. Melton, a farmer born in 1900, led a legal effort in the early 1950s to end Fort Bend County Democrats’ informal whites-only primary elections. Melton’s lawsuit went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Melton’s favor. The story is memorialized on a historical
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