Al Calloway
After having his dreams crushed by an ill-equipped, insensitive, racist high school counselor, Al never returned to Textile High in Manhatten, but always industrious, found gainful employment which led to marriage and children, a daughter and son. Determined to be a good father, his children both attended private school in Greenwich Village, providing a trajectory toward achieving academic success, his daughter at Vasser College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies in Bologna, Italy where she studied economics and urban development and learned to speak fluent French and Italian. His son received a basketball scholarship to the University of South Carolina but felt slighted by a coach, who for political reasons, didn’t always start his best players. […]