The Library of African-American History Series offers engrossing narratives that explore the African-American experience. This book investigates the facets of people's lives most affected by segregation including housing, education, employment, transportation, and public accommodations, and also takes a look at other forms of discrimination, such as voting rights violations. Historical drawings, photos. & maps.
I was born and raised in Northern California. Not long after graduating from the University of California, with a major in the dismal science, I moved to Southern California, where I have remained ever since. At UCLA, I earned a doctorate in African history. My teaching career in that field was regrettably brief, but I later published five books on the subject. Meanwhile, I got into editing work and eventually became a reference book editor. (If you search my name in Amazon books, many of the titles that come up will be reference works I've edited.)
Around 1990, my life began to take an unexpected turn when I renewed my youthful interest in Mark Twain by vowing to read everything he wrote. To give my reading focus, I collected interesting passages from Mark Twain's work with the idea of publishing a quote collection with the reference-book publisher for whom I had written a book on Zimbabwe. I am now astonished to realize that I have published seven books on Mark Twain--with two more due out soon--and have something of a reputation of an authority in Mark Twain studies. How did that happen? I'm not sure, but it has certainly made my life more exciting.
It's now early 2012, and I am a year away from retirement from my editing job. I used the past year to finish two more Mark Twain books, and I'm now on the threshold of branching into other writing fields. I'm hoping that the best is yet to come.
