Background
Candy Dawson Boyd was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother and father divorced. Boyd was raised by her mother.
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Boyd attended racially segregated elementary and middle schools. She graduated from high school in 1962. She eventually graduated in 1967 with her Bachelor of Arts.
Career
She is an author of more than six children"s books focused on African-American youth. Her birth name is Marguerite Cecille Dawson. Her parents were Mary Ruth Ridley and Julian Dawson.
Boyd had two siblings and she was the oldest of the three.
They lived in South Chicago. The library she used was also segregated.
The library books were used from white schools that no longer wanted them. After high school she went to Northeastern Illinois University.
She dropped out of college to get involved with the Civil Rights Movement.
She worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After graduation, Boyd taught locally in Chicago. She moved in Berkeley, California in 1971 and commenced work towards her master"s degree.
She received her master"s in 1978.
She received the Doctor of Philosophy in 1982. Both degrees came from the University of California, Berkeley.
Boyd also worked for Rainbow/People United to Save Humanity. While teaching in California, she became concerned about the lack of quality books for children. She started writing children"s books
She then started to work full-time in training teachers.
As of 2007, she was serving as director of Reading and Language Arts at Saint Mary"s College of California. She is the first African American to have tenure at Saint Mary"son Boyd is married. She lives in San Pablo, California.
1992, Professor of the Year, Saint Mary"s College of California.
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