Let's Roll This Train
Subtitle: My Life in New Mexico Education, Business, and Politics
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780826357434
Subjects: Politicians; New mexico, biography; Educators, united states; African americans, biography; Legislators, united states; New mexico, politics and government
Description: This memoir chronicles Lenton Malry's journey from segregated Louisiana to a distinguished career in public service in New Mexico. Malry worked as a teacher on the Navajo Reservation, as a public school administrator in Albuquerque, and as a commissioner in Bernalillo County. He was also the first African American elected to the New Mexico state legislature and the first African American to earn a PhD in education from the University of New Mexico.