Mixed Marriage: A Memoir
by Janet Cheatham Bell
Publication Date: Aug 29, 2018
List Price: $22.00
Format: Paperback, 202 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780961664954
Imprint: Sabayt Publications
Publisher: Sabayt Publications
Parent Company: Sabayt Publications, Inc
It was the sixties. Everything was changing. People were demanding freedom of every kind. Freedom from racism, from the war in Vietnam, from sexism, from police brutality, from college courses that ignored the achievements of everyone except those of European descent. So, why not, also, the freedom to marry whomever you choose?
In 1965, before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ban on mixed marriages was unconstitutional, in many states it was a crime to marry “outside your race.” And less than 1% of Americans chose to commit that crime. This is the story of how I came to defy that ridiculous law.