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Lawyer, author, and activist Lawrence Otis Graham, passed away on February 19, 2021 at his home in Chappaqua. Graham served on the Purchase College Foundation Board of Trustees from 2009–2017 as a member of the PCF Board’s Student Success Committee.

A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, at age 30 he famously went undercover as a busboy at an all-white country club in Greenwich, CT, exposing racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism in “Invisible Man,” a widely read cover story he wrote about his experience, published in New York magazine.

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The story became the basis for his 1995 bestselling book Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World, one of 14 books he wrote, which also included Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (1999).

A TV drama based on the latter, currently in production by FOX, is scheduled to premiere in 2021–2022.

Graham was special counsel at Cuddy & Feder, LLP specializing in re