My Daughter Married a Negro

"My Daughter Married a Negro" is an essay by an anonymous male author published in Harper's Magazine in the July 1951 issue. It discussed the author's daughter Anne's marriage to an African American – referred to as a negro in the parlance of the time – college classmate in 1949, and details "his family's ordeal with their daughter marrying across the color line." The article has since been much discussed in scholarship on racial relations in the United States.

My Daughter Married a Negro

"My Daughter Married a Negro" is an essay by an anonymous male author published in Harper's Magazine in the July 1951 issue. It discussed the author's daughter Anne's marriage to an African American – referred to as a negro in the parlance of the time – college classmate in 1949, and details "his family's ordeal with their daughter marrying across the color line." The article has since been much discussed in scholarship on racial relations in the United States.