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Lewis Brandon
lewisb@belovedcommunitycenter.org
Lewis A. Brandon, III, a native of Asheville, NC and a retired science teacher, is the Grassroots History Coordinator at the Beloved Community Center.
Brandon, as his friends call him, was a student organizer during the early 1960s when he was matriculating at North Carolina A&T College and played a key role in formulating protest strategies during the civil rights demonstrations as a member of the Student Executive Committee for Justice.
Brandon’s activism did not stop during the 1960s. He continued in the struggle for social, political and economic justice in his community through CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), NAACP, American Friends Service Committee’s College Committee and the Greensboro Association of Poor People. Brandon was vice chairman of Forecast 2015, Guilford County’s long range planning process and a founding member of the Piedmont Land Conservancy. He served as a board member to the Governor’s Waste Management Board and the NC Board of Licensing for Geologists. In addition, Brandon served on the Guilford County Watershed Study Committee, the Guilford County Well Water Rules Committee, and the Guilford County Parks Commission.
In 1986, he was elected and continues to serve on the Guilford Soil and Water District Board of Supervisors. An amateur photographer, Brandon’s works have appeared in numerous publications.