50 Years of Courage, Love

Their marriage demanded courage not required of most people in love.

But Lawrence and Lena Nelson accepted the challenge of interracial marriage and they’ve kept it together for 50 years.

“She didn’t look at me as Black; I didn’t look at her as White,” Lawrence said, sitting with his wife in their east Mesa home.
“Our hearts,” Lena added, “didn’t know the difference.”

But others did, and so did statutes outlawing interracial marriage in most states in the 1950s.

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