WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
HiStory Book Club
Apirl 27, 1:00 to 2:30 pm
The HiStory Book Club continues their 2019 reading list with Mixed Marriage: A Memoir. Remember the book club welcomes everyone, whether they have completed the book or not!
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 author Janet Cheatham Bell came to defy that ridiculous law.
