I just finished reading Secret Daughter by June Cross. June was born to a white mother, and a black father. Her mother raised her until it became obvious that June couldn’t “pass” as white, and they handed her off to a black family to raise. Later in life, when around friends of her mothers, June would have to call her mother “Norma” or “Aunt Norma” in order to keep the facade up, and that was as late as the 70’s. June Cross went on to work in television news, and it was during her time at Frontline that she invited her viewers to learn her story. The story was amazing, alebit a little shocking that a mother would give up her child to protect her own career, or her husbands career (that was one of the excuses used in the book, as June’s stepfather was an actor).

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