Desmond Pierre-Louis:  

Life Hello everyone !!!...I spent the first seven years of my life in Huntsvile, Alabama where my parents were teachers at Oakwood College. I attended Anna Knight School for first grade. We left Oakwood in 1965 and spent the next thre years in Cleveland, Ohio where my father worked on his doctorate at Case-Western Reserve University. I attended Ramah Jr. Academy for grades two through four. In 1968 we left Cleveland and headed west to Angwin, California, where my father was hired to teach in the modern languages department at Pacific Union College. My mother taught there for a short period of time, also. I attended PUC Elementary for the fifth and sixth grades. My parents soon realized that it was difficult for my siblings and I to "survive" as the only African-Americans at our schools. My mother to...Expand for more