This photo depicts America as I knew it in the middle of the 20th Century. It was also the America that Connie and I witnessed during our trip to get married in Yuma, Arizona, in 1954 via America's then two-lane roads. For better or worse, America was, in many ways, in a transitional period. For many of us, it was a farewell to innocence; for others (despite seeing 'Whites Only" signs in Yuma), it was the beginning of a long-overdue time of getting their right to be treated as equals. America has come a long way in race relations, but we have yet to be there.
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