Lester

Lester, 16, recalled he “would walk down the street in [his mother’s] clothes and the boys would say “what a sissy!” “I would get mad and would say: “I am not a sissy!” I am just a boy that likes to wear women’s clothes.” It made me very mad.” "Lester, 16, Negro," Burgess Collection, Box 98, Folder 11, The University of Chicago, Regenstein Library, Special Collections, Chicago, IL. (Courtesy of Special Collections, Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago)