Mom Used Makeup To Hide Her Identity Until Daughter Exposed Her Decades Later

Enduring The Hardships

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“Piecing her life together, I marveled at how she endured the racism of living in the predominantly white suburb of Parma, Ohio, with a racist husband.” That would be Harold, Gail’s father, who never knew about his own wife’s true racial identity.

“My father’s racism was a reflection of his upbringing in a close-knit Cleveland ethnic neighborhood,” Gail explains.