she was born in groans breaux -- in greensboro, raised in durham, north carolina. she is the daughter of a fourth generation baptist preacher and school librarian. i've met reverend lynch. he's an amazing and inspiring man. but her parents instilled in her the american values of fairness and equality even when those around them were not living up to those values. ms. lynch has spoken about riding on her father's shoulders as a child to the church where students organized peaceful protests against racial segregation and the freedom songs and church music that went hand in hand with those protests made up the sound track of her childhood. throughout loretta lynch's life those who encountered her intelligence and tenacity have not always been prepared to accept her and her impressive accomplishments, but each time they didn't accept it, even if they weren't prepared, the content of her character has shown through and led her to even greater heights. in elementary school, administrators did not believe that loretta lynch could score as high as she did on a standardized