found: African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Massaquoi, Hans J.; journalist, editor, publisher, autobiographer/memoirist; born 19 January 1926 in Hamburg, Germany; BA in journalism from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign; writer for Ebony; active in the civil rights movement, marched for open housing in Chicago's all-white Gage Park neighborhood; returned to Germany, reported on the representation of African Americans and ongoing racism on American military bases abroad; published first part of autobiography, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (1999); died 19 January 2013 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States)