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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Hyde was born to a large family led by father Charles B. Hyde, a public servant. He attended the Holy Redeemer Boys' School, prior to its amalgamation with a girls' school of the same name, and the all-male St. John's College High School in Belize City. Evan particularly excelled at creative writing. He was among the first students to attend the SJC Junior College in 1964 and 1965, before being granted a scholarship by the U.S. Embassy to study at Dartmouth in Hanover , New Hampshire . Evan enrolled in September 1966 and graduated in June 1968 among the top students in his class. He had settled on a writing career, but events which were to unfold over the next five years greatly altered that outlook. UBAD AND ENTRY INTO POLITICS See Also: United Black Association for Development Upon Hyde's return to Belize in 1968 the nation he had left behind two years prior was in turmoil due to the latest rejected proposal to end the Guatemalan claim. Hyde took a job teaching at Belize Technical College and in the meantime attempted to link up with other young intellectuals to try to influence the course of Belizean development. Hyde had been exposed to the teachings of the early Black Power movement in the United States, particularly Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X (who had recently been assassinated). These early seeds bore fruit when on January 1, 1969, Hyde participated in a protest at a local cinema against the Vietnam War film " The Green Berets ", starring John Wayne . The group he was a part of, the Ad Hoc Committee for the Truth About Vietnam, was the seed for the later United Black Association for Development and the People's Action Committee chaired by Assad Shoman. Hyde formed UBAD in February and took over its presidency in March after leader Lionel Clarke faced charges of inappropriate conduct. For a further analysis of Hyde in UBAD, see United Black Association For Development . Hyde left Technical to devote his time to the movement, in addition to courting Audrey Scott, whom he would later marry. With her he had four children: Tiffara, Eva, Rachel and ). Hyde also had a daughter Jacinta (present business manager of Amandala ) with another woman. Hyde has several grandchildren. In pursuit of his writing career, Hyde published '' Knocking Our Own Ting '', a satirical analysis of the Battle Of St. George's Caye , in 1969; '' North Amerikkkan Blues '' in 1971, profiling his time at Dartmouth, and '' The Crowd Called UBAD '' in 1972, a complete history of the organization to that point. He also briefly taught at Wesley College, a high school in Belize City. Hyde also participated in politics. He was one of the nine candidates running in coalition with the National Independence Party in 1971 City Council elections, in which the coalition lost badly. Hyde also failed in bids for the Collet Division in 1974 and another City Council run in 1977, with the PUP. POST-UBAD After the dissolution of UBAD in 1974, Hyde turned full-time to journalism, while publishing two other works: '' later in the decade. Hyde today is chair of the UBAD Educational Foundation, successor to UBAD and owner of the Library of African and Indian Studies on Partridge Street. He is majority shareholder in the Kremandala media empire and a great influence on its workers. PUBLISHING HISTORY Fiction:
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