This is a photograph of my great-grandfather John (top row, second from the right) and great-grandmother Ethel (bottom row, second from the right) on their wedding day. John was born in New Orleans in 1903 to a cigar maker. When John was 8 years old, his parents decided to move the family north in search of a better life. John's family was black, but light-skinned, so partway through the train ride from New Orleans to Chicago, the family moved from the "Colored" car to the "White" car. Upon arrival in Chicago, John and his family lived as white people, and told no one of their heritage or where they had come from. After John died in 1988, his eldest daughter, Jackie, noticed a "C" on his birth certificate. She decided to investigate further, and uncovered the family secret. 

– Cora Snow

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