A sociologist and licensed social worker, she recently wrote “Their Stories, Our Stories: Four Presidents of Huston-Tillotson University” (Texas Tech University Press). Minutely researched and ultimately uplifting, it is not always flattering to the principal characters. The book offers candid, insider accounts of the tenures of four Huston-Tillotson University presidents — John Q. Taylor King Sr., Joseph T. McMillan Jr., Larry Earvin, and Colette Pierce Burnette — all of whom served during Martin’s 50-year teaching career at the historically Black institution. (Tillotson College was established in 1875; Samuel Huston College in 1877. They merged in 1952.) Martin includes a short,
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