Integrating Delmar 1957: The Story of a Friendship

by Margaret B. Cunningham, Arlen R. Westbrook, Miki Conn (Editor)

What happens when an African American family looks for housing in an all-white suburb during the late ‘50’s?  Integrating Delmar 1957: The Story of a Friendship by Margaret B. Cunningham and Arlen R. Westbrook, edited by Miki Conn, is based on journals kept by the two authors. It chronicles the search for housing by  a middle class African American family and the results of the decision by a white couple to rent their house to them.

The growing attention of Americans to the lingering consequences of racism today makes this book an important memoir; an opportunity to take a look back, not at history or theory but at the lived experiences of the authors.

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 30, 2021