[6] Raised in Chicago, Illinois, Lester attended West Virginia State College where he was a star football player.

[7] The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II.

"[10] Later in his career he also worked with the infamous "Whiz kids" that Robert McNamara assembled at the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

[9] In 1969 Lester retired as a full colonel and was then appointed as associate director of social services in Rockville, Maryland.

The original Inner City Fund was a venture capital firm aimed at supporting minority-owned businesses to achieve government contracts.