Love in Black and White

William S. Cohen born in Bangor Maine was the eldest son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother. Janet Langhart an African-American was raised in Indianapolis Indiana by her single parent mother a Southern Baptist. The book draws fascinating parallels between the histories of two people from different regions races and religions as both are witnesses to and targets of the social tensions of the day. Opposites in so many ways-in color faith and culture-seemingly a bundle of contradictions they meet in 1974 become friends and eventually fall in love. They were married on Valentine's Day 1996.