Love — The Mixed Race Marriage

Christina Brown
Sep 6, 2018 · 3 min read

This is the story of our parents — a true love story of being swept away, of finding the one, only to be faced with prejudice and resistance. This is the story of two people certain in their love and dealing with the fact she wanted to marry a ‘darkie’ and nobody except them, were happy about it.

They met when mum was fourteen and sitting on a bus going to a picnic with another boy. Enter my father; dashing…

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