D Molentia GuttmanAuthor D. Molentia Guttman is married and has three children. She came to Hawai'i in 1973 to work at the University of Hawai'i as a grants administrator. Coauthor Ernest Golden came to Hawaii at age 19 in 1943 as a defense worker at Pearl Harbor Nava Shipyard. He is married and has four children, seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. The African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawai'i was founded in 1997 to preserve historical documentation about the black community's contributions and impact in Hawai'i's civic life, military, medicine, religion, and politics. Read More Read Less