![]() The gifted Wilson had learned to read at age four, and ultimately received an honorary high school diploma from the library for the precocious extent to which he educated himself with its books. ![]() Dropping out of high school in the tenth grade after being falsely accused of plagiarizing a twenty-page paper on Napoleon I, Wilson worked odd jobs and made great use of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library. Facing racist rage-their Hazelwood home had bricks thrown through its windows-they soon moved to a new home. Upon the divorce of his mother and father in the 1950s, Wilson and his family would move to Hazelwood-a mainly white, working-class section of Pittsburgh where their appearance, as a black family, wasn’t met with open arms. The fourth of six children, Wilson was raised in a poor neighborhood of Pittsburgh predominately populated by black Americans, as well as Italian and Jewish immigrants. ![]()
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