Sadly, Tom dies before seeing the girls earn graduate degrees in writing from Columbia University and University of San Francisco. Marylin becomes an attorney, putting the girls through the University of Michigan. The family's lifestyle includes friendships and associations with people of a cornucopia of race, religion, and culture, as Tom even serves as president of an American Indian association. He journals nightly, inspiring the girls' passion for reading and writing.Īll the while, family rifts in the wake of their interracial union begin to heal, fostering harmony and healing. Mom"- taking the high-achieving girls to lessons for swim, piano, and skiing. Team work makes the family's dream work as Marylin attends the University of Detroit School of Law at night while she and Tom work full time he becomes "Mr.
Poor in finances but rich in love, they have two biracial daughters, Elizabeth Ann Atkins and Catherine Marie Atkins Greenspan, who look white. At age 19, Marylin sparks a racial and religious scandal by marrying former Roman Catholic priest Thomas Lee Atkins, who is white and 25 years older. Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michigan The adoptive mother's abuse instills in the girl, whom they name Marylin Elnora, ambition to achieve great things on her own.
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