Shortly after that, I burned out in my job as a college teacher.
Between 1960 and 1973 she was also a college teacher.
Being college teachers, it would have been almost impossible for them not to.
Today only 5 percent of the nation's college teachers are black.
My father was a field hand, a son of a slave - and I'm a college teacher.
He began his career as a journalist and later became a college teacher.
"The college teachers seem to care whether their students learn," she says.
Because they live busy academic lives, college teachers are not always available just when you want to see them.
Now he is grown up, black and a college teacher.
Most college teachers can look forward to part-time work at best.
