Editing Paul Winfield (section)

==Early years==
Winfield was the son of Lois Beatrice Edwards, a single mother who was a union organizer in the garment industry. Although published obituaries stated he was born May 22, 1941 in Los Angeles,<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Paul Winfield Is Dead at 62; Known for Film and TV Roles |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/arts/paul-winfield-is-dead-at-62-known-for-film-and-tv-roles.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 9, 2004}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Adenekan |first1=Shola |title=Obituary: Paul Winfield |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/02/guardianobituaries1 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=April 2, 2004}}</ref> some sources indicate he was born May 22, 1939 in Dallas, Texas.{{efn|His grave marker at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)]] gives his birth year as 1939, and the Social Security Index gives his place and date of birth as Dallas, Texas, on May 22, 1939.<ref name="SSN">{{cite web |title=U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/inst/discoveries/PfRecord?emailId=N-574f62ed-560d-4f25-960b-e81d391f26c1&collectionId=60901&recordId=28197371&ahsht=2020-01-31T02:36:26&language=en-AU&ahsh=6cfb5ca7540a65a8867ac167ff7fb530 |website=Ancestry.com |access-date=January 31, 2020}}</ref>}} His stepfather from the age of eight was Clarence Winfield, a city trash collector and construction worker.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/86/Paul-Winfield.html| title=Paul Winfield Biography| website=Film Reference| access-date=June 23, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Paul Winfield Biography| url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800036254| work=Yahoo! Movies| year=2008| access-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref> Winfield graduated from [[Manual Arts High School]] in Los Angeles. From there, he attended the University of Portland, 1957–59; Stanford University, 1959; Los Angeles City College, 1959–63; University of California, Los Angeles, 1962–64; University of Hawaii, 1965 and the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970–71, but did not earn a degree from any of them.<ref name=gale>{{cite book| title=Paul Winfield| url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryblac0000unse_m0w5/page/258/mode/2up?q=winfield| editor-first=Barbara Carlisle| editor-last=Bigelow| isbn=978-1414435305| pages=258–261| publisher=Gale Research| year=1992| access-date=October 29, 2020| url-access=registration}}</ref>