Known as the Black Encyclopedia, John William Templeton is the founder of the Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month and author of the annual State of Black Business. He was the first African-American editor of a business newspaper at the San Jose Business Journal in 1987, editor of the oldest Black newspaper in the nation, the Richmond AFRO-AMERICAN and Richmond Planet during its centennial in 1983 and is author of 68 books including Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California, Vols. 1-4 and the trilogy Road to Ratification: How 27 States Faced the Most Challenging Issue in American History; Citizenship for All: 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment and We Fought, We Vote: 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment.
