I know this is kind of off-topic, but I'm hoping there might be some history buffs on the list?
I'm writing a story right now set in 1964 Chicago, where a Sri Lankan-American woman marries a white man. I'm having a hard time figuring out how difficult this would have been -- i.e., I think it would have been legal, but would they have been able to rent an apartment together? Would they have faced violent reactions in the streets? I would love to hear from people who lived through that time period who might have some sense of what the reaction would have been, or from people who can point me to good historical resources for the period. It's set specifically in Hyde Park, so an academic environment, and a black/white racially-integrated neighborhood, but b/w tensions at least would have been high then, I think. - Mary Anne ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Anne Mohanraj - http://www.mamohanraj.com Director, Speculative Literature Foundation - http://www.speculativeliterature.org ------------------------------------------------ visit http://www.geocities.com/sapacchicago email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe sapac" in msg body to unsubscribe
