Elaine Turner

Biography

Elaine Lee-Turner is a Memphis based African-American historian, educator, civil rights activist and entrepreneur. Born in Memphis to Robert and Alversa Williams Lee, Elaine's family were described in a 1965 Jet magazine article as the "Most Arrested Family" in America, as the 7 Lee sisters were arrested at least 15 times at sit-ins from 1960-1965. In 1983, after working as a school teacher for 15 years, Elaine and her sister Joan Lee-Nelson realised that many African-American children in Memph…