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Article by Gregory Lewis of the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 

Forty years after interracial marriage ruling, acceptance still isn't universal

June 16, 2007

Rosalind Murray and John Port have been married 20 years and people
still stare at them.

He is white. She is black.

"We still get looks, stares, the stare down," said Murray. "The
stares come from both sides, not just whites. Blacks give you the
stare down. It's hard to find a place where you'd be accepted."

Murray and Port, of Boynton Beach, married in 1987, 20 years after
the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law that barred blacks
and whites from marrying -- a ruling that allowed Americans of all
races to intermarry. Marriages like theirs helped change the country.

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