What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.
  • rynzcycle@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Wow, what a wonderful bit of storytelling and great insight into the very weird social and political landscape of Michigan.

    I love the photo of the Muma’s, happy they were on the right side of history when it mattered.

    And this stands out, “We feel that they have been put here … to ‘brain wash’ our children into accepting a mixed marriage as natural. We will never accept a mixed marriage as being right.”

    Sound familiar? Assholes never change, they just shift their target.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    6·
    11 months ago

    Marion and Carl would pretend that Ruby and Carado’s money was their own, purchase the lot and have the house built to Ruby and Carado’s specifications. And once complete, they’d turn around and immediately sell it to the Baileys without any financial profit. Neither the developers nor the neighbors would have any idea this nice white couple wasn’t going to live there and the new house would instead be occupied by a couple whose marriage was still illegal in roughly one-third of the country.

    Good people. Brave.

    “We feel that they have been put here … to ‘brain wash’ our children into accepting a mixed marriage as natural. We will never accept a mixed marriage as being right.”

    I guess people never change.