The years of intense academic training drew Al to teaching as a profession, which took him to Xavier University of Louisiana, an African American Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana, to assume his first teaching post. He completed a degree in theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, two years later. After finishing college in 1964, Al enrolled at the University of California– Berkeley to study English, completing his M.A. Excelling in his studies, Al graduated from a Franciscan high school and entered what is now Loyola Marymount University at age sixteen. Woods, an African American former priest, who left the priesthood because of racism in the Catholic Church, would have lasting impact on Al, teaching him Latin and Greek and, in a sense, starting his intellectual journey. When he was four years old, his mother remarried. The man claimed self-defense and the case was never prosecuted, prompting Al’s mother, Mabel, to leave the South, taking Al and his sisters first to the Midwest and then to California. Three months before his birth, a white man killed his father. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.Īlbert Jordy Raboteau was born in Bay St.
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