The Detroit Free Press includes the personal account of life and death for her interracial great-grandparents.
Desiree Cooper writes:
When Logan died in 1936, Mary and their children stood outside the church, forbidden to attend the funeral. Because he left no will, the sheriff rounded up Logan’s possessions and divided them among 22 of even his most distant relatives, purposely excluding his “colored” family. When Mary died three years later, she wasn’t buried beside the man she’d loved for 45 years, but in a separate graveyard for blacks.