{"id":52459,"date":"2017-03-14T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52459"},"modified":"2017-03-14T17:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:42:50","slug":"interracial-delaware-couple-ignores-critics-for-nearly-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52459","title":{"rendered":"Interracial Delaware couple ignores critics for nearly 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interracial Delaware couple ignores critics for nearly 50 years<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Delaware Online<\/a>
\n2016-11-25<\/p>\n

Margie Fishman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSara and Pat Aldrich of Lewes<\/a>. They got married the day after the Supreme Court legalized mixed-race marriages. Jason Minto\/The News Journal<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She grew up in the northwest corner of Missouri<\/a>, a blip on the map, where you could afford to be color blind because the only “person of color” was an elderly black woman who would slip into church and make a hasty exit\u00a0before the benediction.<\/p>\n

He grew up near prestigious Yale University, the son of domestics who saw his parents three times (in a good week), and was one of three black kids in his high school graduating class, always on the social periphery.<\/p>\n

They might never have met, though they nearly crossed paths\u00a0several times during their young adult years.\u00a0Even if they had met then, strident objections against mixing races would’ve filled the background, contaminating their relationship before it had a chance to blossom.<\/p>\n

But Sara Beth Kurtz, a shy, determined dancer,\u00a0and Vince “Pat” Collier Aldrich Jr., a medical records specialist who listened to his gut and to the occasional opera,\u00a0did meet in 1965 in a sleepy German village\u00a0\u2014 courtesy of\u00a0the United States military…<\/p>\n