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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20030621
Author:Emily Fancher, STAFF WRITER

MENLO PARK -- Nathaniel Hawthorne Brooks, an education pioneer who broke the color barrier in San Mateo County and San Francisco school administration, died Monday of a heart attack. He was 80 years old and had been suffering from heart disease for more than five years.

During his 40-plus year career, he was a public school teacher, athletics coach and administrator and a civil rights activist.

"He was a man of extraordinary dignity and character and was extraordinarily charismatic," said Daphne Ann Brooks, his youngest daughter and a professor at Princeton University. "He was able to ...

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