From Wikipedia:
“Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman.”
“One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was an architect who was the first accredited African American architect, and the first African American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
Interesting, no?
VJ
Father, James E. Bowman, US Army MD, 1943-1946 and again from 1953-1955
VJ b. November 1956, Iran
Family moved to London, 1961
Father hired by U of Chicago, 1962
VJ: Northfield Mount Hermon School (boarding school in MA) 1974 grad, Stanford 1978 grad, U of Mich Law 1981 grad
Sorry - should have read all the replies before I posted mine. I recalled that she did have black grandparents or at least one of them was.