Born at home with the assistance of a midwife, his mother, Elizabeth Hopkins, was a teenager, being raised by her mother and grandmother.
At that time the Emergency Hospital, now Anne Arundel Medical Center, was segregated.
African-American women either delivered at home or made the pilgrimage to the City of Baltimore.
As a small boy he spent most of his time with his grandmother while his mother worked odd jobs to support her son until she landed a job at the U.S. Naval Academy as...
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