At this point, he started working odd jobs and made great use of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library, which eventually gave him an honorary high school diploma because of how much time he spent reading in the stacks. Wilson himself dropped out of high school during his sophomore year because he was falsely accused of plagiarizing an essay about Napoleon I. They faced overt bigotry in this community, as racist white people threw bricks through the windows of the Wilsons’ new home. After his mother and father divorced in the 1950s, Wilson and his family moved to Hazelwood-a mostly white, working-class section of Pittsburgh. Wilson and his five siblings were raised in a poor, predominately Black neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
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