SAY I'M DEAD: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to realize that her mother's whole white side was missing a family history. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame that have to be overcome, but her own experiences with whites. Photos.