Nathan Hare (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hare was born on a sharecropper's farm near the Creek County town of Slick, Oklahoma on April 9, 1933. He attended the public schools of L'Ouverture (variously spelled "Louverture") Elementary School and L'Ouverture High School. The two schools were named after the militant Haitian General Toussaint Louverture and were part of the so-called "Slick Separate Schools" in the segregated rural milieu of the late 1930s and 1940s. When Hare was eleven years old, his family migrated to San Diego, California, where his single mother took a civilian janitorial job with the Navy air station. As World War II ended and his mother was laid off, his family returned to Oklahoma. This put on hold his ambition to become a professional boxer, something he had picked up after adult neighbors in San Diego assured him that writers all starve to death.