“Standing on The Threshold of Greatness.”
The Historic Story of the First Black American War Correspondent to Perish in Service to His Country.
Introduction
“…my father would never, was never destined to achieve or earn all that he deserved for the twenty years of blood, sweat and tears he devoted to the Journal and Guide and other vehicles. The promise that was his could never be realized inasmuch as a so-called “accident” took away all that should have been. And, who knows, really, what he would have done, what other accolades could have been his had he just lived. But, he didn’t.”
Lelia O.V. Hinton Crowders - “Memoir for My Father: Albert L. Hinton, Journalist, War Correspondent & Family Man Standing at the Threshold of Greatness.” (pp. 5-6). Kindle Edition.
“A Newspapermen’s Newspaperman”
“These articles, his words, will paint for you a picture of my father, and, by the time you have finished reading them, you, just as did I, will have a picture of who he was and how he thought as, he wrote in his op-eds what his conscience perceived as the truth. No one can express his words and thoughts better than he, the ultimate wordsmith..” - Lelia Olive Vivian Hinton Crowders
Mr. Hinton’s Family
Dovey Collins Hinton (wife): First Black Educator to Teach White Elementary School Children in Norfolk, Virginia
Lelia O. V. H. Crowders (daughter): College Professor, Singer, Speaker, Poet, Writer
Carl A. Hinton (youngest son): Russian History Professor
Gail P. Hinton (youngest daughter): Private Duty Nurse
Albert L. Hinton Jr (son): Artist
Prince Albert Hinton
Prince Albert Hinton (Father to Albert L. Hinton) was one of three colored men who served Pasquotank County in the State Legislature during Reconstruction days, being elected to the General Assembly in 1887. For several years after the Civil War ended and before the disfranchisement he was a recognized leader in the Republican Party.