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Despite these signs of acceptance, intolerance persists. Some Blacks and Whites report that they have been mysteriously fired after employers discovered their marital status. And an interracial couple, according to the Center for Democratic Renewal, ned only go two miles outside Atlanta to be the victim of attack. Elmo Seay and his White wife, Susan, for example, fled from a suburban Atlanta subdivision after their home was vandalized and firebombed. Another interracial couple, Susan Hill, 29, and her Black husband, John, 36, got so frustrated with the ostracism and rejection by friends, family, landlords and employers that they left Bolivar, Tenn., temporarily and settled in Jackson, Tenn., until the commotion died down. “It was like I had committed a crime,” Susan Hill says. “Being from a small town, it just seems it is born and bred in some people that you don’t like Blacks, no matter what.”

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“I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.”
–Roy Croft

Prom

I had been dating her six-months and they still didn’t know by the night of prom. They lovingly and happily joked about my “mystery woman”, probably thinking that I was just being secretive. They were happy for once, filled with the anticipation of meeting my date for  my first pro. “You’re all grown up” my mom said with a smile and a hug. All I could do was look at the floor. My father was tying my tie when there was a knock at the door. It was Nardley. I knew it. My father reached the kitchen before I could get there and opened the door. I heard him say: How can we help you……miss?”

She replied “I’m Nardley, I’m Jake’s date to the prom.”

“Wait here” he replied.

My father returned to the room and said “Jake it’s for you” and gave me a look that I knew had changed his view of me forever.