Black America 1956-1966: The Break-Through Period

About the Book

Black America, 1956-1966:  The Breakthrough Period presents a startling side of the black experience in Texas and southern California that one may very seldom read or hear about in today's society.  Employing drops of humor and black language, the author works to demonstrate the struggles that downtrodden Blacks had endured at a time when segregation in the South had reached its peak.  When they got a breakthrough, they relocated to Los Angeles, California where they were well-equipped to conquer the surprising challenges.

About the Author

Barbara Hobbs holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a Rhetoric and Composition Certificate, Graduate Academic Program, from California State University at Dominguez Hills. Barbara Hobbs holds a teaching certificate from the University of California Extension. She is a retired community relations employee of thirty-seven years from the Los Angeles Community Colleges.  She also served as a writing workshop facilitator at Los Angeles City College for one school year.  From 2004-2006, she served as a Reading By 9 tutor for the L.A. Unified School District as well as a member of the Lawndale Library Book Club.

Barbara is the recipient of four Editor Choice Awards from the National Library of Poetry for poems she wrote in the nineties. In 1996, she was inducted into the International Poetry Hall of Fame, became a member of the International Poetry Society, and published her first book of poetry, Conquering Obstacles, in 1998. In addition, she is a former staff writer of the West Angeles News and the Dominguez Hills News.  Many of Barbara’s letters have been published in the LA Times, the Daily Breeze and the Daily News.