Before it was legal : a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

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Label

Before it was legal : a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

Title remainder

a black-white marriage (1945-1987)

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Werking Poling

Creator

• Poling, Nancy Werking, 1941-

Author

• Poling, Nancy Werking, 1941-

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Indiana
• African Americans -- Mexico | Mexico City
• History
• Indiana
• Indiana
• Indiana -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Intermarriage
• Intermarriage -- United States
• Interracial marriage
• Interracial marriage -- Indiana
• 1900-1999
• Marriage
• Marriage -- Mexico | Mexico City
• Marriage -- United States
• Married people
• Married people -- Mexico | Mexico City
• Mexico -- Mexico City
• Mexico City (Mexico)
• Race discrimination
• Race discrimination -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century
• Race relations
• United States
• Interracial marriage -- Mexico | Mexico City
• African Americans

Genre

• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

Based on a true story about Nancy Werking Poling's aunt's sister. ""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 fime, Daniel could work in the profession he'd been educated for. Freed from U.S. racism, he felt "as Mexican as chile verde." Meanwhile, 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 biracial 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"--

Assigning source

Back cover

Cataloging source

UZR

Dewey number

305.896

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult