John Killens

When her mother allowed her to leave school, she resolved to get a job on the San Francisco street cars, which had never employed a coloured person (though it later turned out that a mixed-race...

During the 1950s MA , with competence as a singer and success as a dancer already under her belt, developed the ambition of becoming a writer. She began with sketches, song lyrics, and short stories...

Meanwhile the first work MA read aloud at a Guild meeting was a play, One Life. One Love.. For her second reading she promised a new short story, since Killens told her this was...