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Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

"Would you marry a Negro?" the group of young white social workers asked each other over dinner. "If he's the kind of man I'm attracted to," Anna Harley answered. She was, in fact, seeing Daniel Winters, a black man, regularly.

Their forty-two-year marriage would span key historical periods of the 20th century and eventually take the couple to Mexico City. There, for the first time, Daniel could work in the profession he'd been educated for. Freed from U.S. racism, he felt "as Mexican as chile verde." Mean-while, Anna, a reserved blond woman who struggled with speaking Spanish, experienced no similar sense of liberation.

Before It Was Legal is not a happily-ever-after story, but an honest portrayal of the love and hurt that any two people, not just a bi-racial couple, may encounter in an intimate relationship. It is the story of an independent white woman, a talented black man, and the times in which these two remarkable people lived.

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Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

"Would you marry a Negro?" the group of young white social workers asked each other over dinner. "If he's the kind of man I'm attracted to," Anna Harley answered. She was, in fact, seeing Daniel Winters, a black man, regularly.

Their forty-two-year marriage would span key historical periods of the 20th century and eventually take the couple to Mexico City. There, for the first time, Daniel could work in the profession he'd been educated for. Freed from U.S. racism, he felt "as Mexican as chile verde." Mean-while, Anna, a reserved blond woman who struggled with speaking Spanish, experienced no similar sense of liberation.

Before It Was Legal is not a happily-ever-after story, but an honest portrayal of the love and hurt that any two people, not just a bi-racial couple, may encounter in an intimate relationship. It is the story of an independent white woman, a talented black man, and the times in which these two remarkable people lived.

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Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

by Nancy Werking Poling
Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

by Nancy Werking Poling

Overview

"Would you marry a Negro?" the group of young white social workers asked each other over dinner. "If he's the kind of man I'm attracted to," Anna Harley answered. She was, in fact, seeing Daniel Winters, a black man, regularly.

Their forty-two-year marriage would span key historical periods of the 20th century and eventually take the couple to Mexico City. There, for the first time, Daniel could work in the profession he'd been educated for. Freed from U.S. racism, he felt "as Mexican as chile verde." Mean-while, Anna, a reserved blond woman who struggled with speaking Spanish, experienced no similar sense of liberation.

Before It Was Legal is not a happily-ever-after story, but an honest portrayal of the love and hurt that any two people, not just a bi-racial couple, may encounter in an intimate relationship. It is the story of an independent white woman, a talented black man, and the times in which these two remarkable people lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998565101
Publisher: Nancy Werking Poling
Publication date: 03/01/2017
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Nancy Werking Poling's motivation to write comes from a concern for women's struggles and triumphs. Growing up, she sensed a mystique surrounding her aunt's sister, a white woman who had married a black man and moved to Mexico. Years later, an eleven-day interview allowed Poling into the private realm of that marriage. Nancy Werking Poling and her husband live in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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