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...tabloid-TV confessionals or presidential tapes or paparazzi pictures, just the mysterious comings and goings in and around the White House. So what did a reporter report? Well, we had the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the space race, the Cuban missile crisis and Bull Connor in Birmingham, Ala . Never saw one of the girls in the Cabinet Room interfering with the President on how to handle Vietnam. In that pre-Geraldo world, the Mimis were a nonstory...
...bases are in the South--has become one of the country's most integrated institutions have increased opportunities for blacks and whites to interact as equals and develop romantic relationships. These factors combined to help join the Edgeworths. Yvette, 35, a claims auditor at the Social Security Administration in Birmingham, grew up on air bases in California and Germany before her family moved to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., in the 1980s, when she was a teenager. She and her first husband, who was white, had three children before divorcing in 1993. "In the military, everybody's pretty...
...lines, however, were more sharply drawn for Chip, 34, a machine operator who grew up in a largely segregated community in Birmingham. But spending time with Yvette and her family and friends opened his eyes. "I discovered the real world," he says. "They've got the same bills and problems I do." And although his father still won't talk to him, his mother accepted the marriage even before the couple's daughter Lauren, 7, was born. Still, there are awkward moments, even with the more welcoming in-laws. It's confusing "at Thanksgiving at my [maternal] grandparents' house...
Some experts believe marital integration will spawn broader social mixing between the races, giving more people that kind of dual vision. In Birmingham, say the Edgeworths, who live in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood, the once tacitly segregated public parks are slowly integrating as more mixed-raced families like theirs frequent them. "Multiracial living begets more multiracial living, period," says Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor and author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption (Pantheon). That's especially true, he adds, now that mixed marriage in the South is being accepted at all social levels...
...family, including Melanie's four children and Darryl's daughter from a previous marriage, moved to more tolerant Birmingham soon after the shooting. But as stressful as that incident was, Melanie says it hurt even more when Darryl once asked her not to drive him to a job interview because he feared that his prospective boss, who was white, might object to his mixed marriage. As a result, she admits, she prefers that her 16-year-old daughter from her first marriage not date black boys...