In
the Garden of Our Dreams : Memoirs of a Marriage by Shirlee Taylor
Haizlip, Harold C. Haizlip. She was an African American princess, raised
in a racially mixed Connecticut neighborhood. He came from a poor section of
Washington, D.C., and supported his brilliant academic career with scholarships
and part-time jobs. But when they met in 1957, their shared aspirations to
"uplift the race" and force white America to accept them on their own terms drew
them together. Married in 1959, the Haizlips held various socially conscious
jobs while experiencing the tumult of the 1960s from an unusual vantage point.
Their joint memoir sketches the evolution of both a marriage between very
different personalities and the racial landscape in America.