She was expelled for loving a black guy 70 years ago: look at them now

This year, Jake and Mary Jacobs celebrated 70 years of a beautiful marriage, but they had to overcome many obstacles to get there.

Jake was one of the few black males in the city where Mary, a white lady, and Jake, a black man, both resided in 1940s Britain.

It would have been easy for Mary to go, but she had fallen in love and would go to any length to remain with her lover, despite her father’s demands.

“When I informed my father I was intending to marry Jake, he replied, “You will never set foot in this house again if you marry that man.”When Jake immigrated from Trinidad during the war, they met at the same technical institution where Mary was taking typing and shorthand lessons and he was going through Air Force training.

Jake struck up a discussion with Mary, who lived in Lancashire at the time, and she was impressed by his knowledge of Shakespeare.

He and his buddy asked Mary and her friend to join them for a picnic, but a woman riding by noticed them and reported Mary to her father because she was shocked to see two English ladies speaking with black boys. Mary was not permitted to return to see her father after he was frightened.