She left the South for New York, where she married a black preacher and converted to Chrisitianity. Jordan had never revealed her past to her children, and it was only in the course of being interviewed by her son that she shared memories of her background as a Polish Jewish immigrant who settled with her family in rural Virginia, where she witnessed both racism and antisemitism. Lashon Daley will lead a discussion of James McBride’s "The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother." In this classic memoir, published in 1995, journalist McBride intersperses recollections of his own past with the recollections of his mother, Ruth McBride Jordan.
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