![]() ![]() ![]() Father teaches at South Woodlawn School and works evenings and weekends at the YMCA. The family leaves Glenview and moves briefly to Woodlawn, a suburb of Cincinnati. At some point during Giovanni’s first three years, her sister-for reasons no one really understands-begins calling her baby sister “Nikki.” 1947 The children and their mother make frequent visits to their grandparents’ home in Knoxville throughout their childhood. In August, the Giovanni family of four moves to Cincinnati, Ohio, home of Jones Giovanni, where both he and Yolande take jobs as house parents at Glenview School, a home for black boys. Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr., is born on 7 June in Knoxville General Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee. Gary Ann Giovanni, the poet's sister, is born on September 2. Yolande Watson marries Jones Giovanni in Knoxville, Tennessee, on July 3. 1919īirth of Yolande Cornelia Watson, Giovanni's mother, in Albany, Georgia. Birth of Jones "Gus" Giovanni, the poet's father, just outside Mobile, Alabama, to Mattie Jones and Thomas Giovanni. ![]()
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