Lois E. Holt died on Saturday, April 22. She was 101. Holt was known as Flint’s first black school teacher, and her late husband Edgar (pictured on wall) made huge strides toward diversity and racial equality in Genesee County and nationwide. They housed many African students from foreign countries attending colleges in Michigan keeping record of them in her guest book from instead of adopting children as they’d planned. They even mortgaged their home in 1957 to charter a plane to take Flint residents to participate in Montgomery Alabama demonstrations following Rosa Parks refusal to yield her seat in 1955.
For the full article, see Dominic Adams, “First black teacher in Flint schools Lois E. Holt dies at 101“, MLive, April 28, 2017.