Question

A description of Lincoln M. Alexander
childhood ?

Answer 1

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Born to West Indian immigrants – his mother was from Jamaica and his father, also named Lincoln Alexander, was from St Vincent – in Toronto in 1922, he grew up by simple means. His father, though a carpenter by trade, worked as a railway porter and his mother a maid. In 1937 at the age of 15, he moved to New York to live with his mother, but didn’t stay away from home for very long. He returned in 1942 to serve his country in the RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) for World War II until 1945.Lincoln married Yvonne Harrison in 1948 and a year later their only child, Keith, was born. As the first person in his family to pursue higher learning, he attended McMaster University and graduated with a BA in History and Political Economy in 1949. This only marks the beginning of his accomplishments