![]() ![]() “It never occurred to me that we were living in poverty,” Sowell writes. ![]() It was located on an unpaved street, and had no electricity or running water. In his memoir, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Sowell recalls that his first memories were living in a wooden house in Charlotte, which he says was typical of most Black neighborhoods. Willie died a few years later during complications while giving birth to another child. His father, Henry, died before he was born, and his mother, Willie, unable to care for young Thomas, gave him up for adoption to his great-aunt Molly. ![]() Thomas Sowell was born into poverty during the beginnings of the Great Depression in Gastonia, North Carolina, on June 30, 1930. In this profile for Black History Month, the Hoover Institution commemorates the life, scholarship, and incisive commentary on politics, economics, and social issues of Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow. ![]()
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