William Maynard Minter

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William Maynard Minter - Dec 1988

Pedigree Chart

• WMM Pedigree Chart

Birth

• Date: 22 Sep 1942
• Location: Washington, DC, USA

Immediate Ancestors

• Father: David Ramseur Minter
• Mother: Mary Sue Wootton

Immediate Descendants

With Ruth Marilyn Brandon

• Samuel Antonio Minter

With Catherine Sunshine

• Cynthia Anne Minter

Places Lived

• Washington, DC, USA (1942)
• West Palm Beach, FL, USA (1942-1943)
• Palestine, TX, USA (ask Sue Minter when)
• Evansville, IN, USA (1943-1945, summer visits some years while in Mississippi)
• Philadelphia, PA, USA (1946)
• Providence (near Tchula, Mississippi, USA) (1946-1954, 1955-1956 school year)
• Tucson, AZ, USA (1954-1955 school year)
• Tucson, AZ, USA (1956-1961)
• Ibadan, Nigeria (1961-1962 school year)
• Tucson, AZ, USA (1962-1963)
• New York, NY, USA (1963-1966)
• Raleigh, NC, USA (Summer 1964)
• Albany, GA, USA (Summer 1965)
• Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Oct 1966 - Dec 1968)
• New York, NY, USA (1969)
• Madison, WI, USA (Sep 1969 - May or Jun 1973)
• Durham, NC, USA (1973)
• Bagamoyo, Tanzania (Jan 1974 - May 1975)
• Ribáuè, Mozambique (May 1975 - Mar 1976)
• Durham, NC, USA (1976-1982)
• Washington, DC, USA (1982 - present)

Marriages

• Ruth Marilyn Brandon
• Catherine Sunshine

Biographical Information

• Born at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC
• Baptized by his grandfather William Ramseur Minter.
• Childhood stories from Mary Sue Wootton
  • Lots of creek beds and hills and paths to hike where Bill and sisters Susan and Diane spent their first growing up years.
  • Bill and friend Dennis hunted poisonous snakes in hopes of selling the "milk". Luckily they had little luck.
  • Susan and Diane were buddy hikers and set out often down the dusty road in front of our house, chanting merrily "We're off to seek adventure, adventure, adventure!" One time in the fall all three siblings decided to do the hill above the house where trails were full of fallen leaves. They returned with a great sense of accomplishment, but alas Diane had only one shoe on. (They each had just one good pair for school.) The siblings and their mother retraced their journey but never found the mate to Diane's one shoe.
  • The last Xmas before we left (Mississippi) Susan got ML (My Lady), a worn out old horse we bought from some gentleman. She had the habit now and again of dumping the rider!!! We used her once to build a treehouse. (Actually Bill was on this adventure). The three transported boards etc to build in a tree somewhere down near the clinic. Details elude me. I know they made several trips and had a great sense of accomplishment when it was livable!!!!
• Sent to the Fenster School in Tucson Arizona as a teenager while his family was still in Mississippi hoping for a better climate for asthma
• A writer/researcher specializing in Southern African Affairs. In addition to many articles in a variety of publications, the following items are listed at Amazon (in order of their sales rank as of 28 May 2006):
  • Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy (with Laurence Shoup)
  • Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique
  • Operation Timber: Pages from the Savimbi Dossier
  • King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa
  • Portuguese Africa and the West
  • Imperial network and external dependency: The case of Angola
  • United States and Africa: Starting points for a new policy framework
  • U.S. Foreign Policy: An African Agenda
  • The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) as described by ex-participants: Research report submitted to Ford Foundation and Swedish International Development Agency
  • Apartheid's Contras: Rural terrorism and Mozambique's struggle for survival
  • Africa activists' guide: Organizer's reference directory to information sources
  • Questions and answers on South Africa sanctions
  • Savimbi and South Africa: No casual affair
  • Zimbabwe of Rhodesi  : Door praten alleen geen bevrijding
• Editor of AfricaFocus
• Information on his PhD dissertation: The Council on Foreign Relations: A Case Study of the Societal Bases of Foreign Policy Formation, 1922-1969.

Pictures

William Maynard Minter with his sisters as a child

References

• Samuel Antonio Minter Memory
• Amazon.com "William Minter"
• Mary Sue Wootton 2005-12-16 Packet Page 36
• Email from suewminter@webtv.net 2003-01-27 01:35:46 UTC
• Email from suewminter@webtv.net 2006-08-14 22:10:44 UTC
• WMM Personal Memories (WMM edited this Wiki page directly)
• Email from wminter@igc.org 2006-11-30 02:11:27 UTC
• Email from suewminter@webtv.net 2006-06-13 13:44:09 UTC
• Email from suewminter@webtv.net 2006-08-21 18:48:13 UTC
• Email from suewminter@webtv.net 2006-09-12 22:55:23 UTC
• Email from wminter@gmail.com 2020-05-26 02:28:01 UTC
  • Including: Photo of William Maynard Minter with his sisters as a child

Notes

• A quick Google Search will find a variety of other references to publications, activities, jobs, etc. There are however many other "William Minter"'s mixed in.
• This page posted on Abulsme.com on 28 May 2006
• Order of pre-Providence locations uncertain and possibly incomplete, email sent to Mary Sue Wootton asking for more info