[Yaelle]

An unmarried white teenage girl in 1962 was going to give birth to a “black” baby. Things were different then, and that was a big deal.

[editor-surveyor]

"An unmarried white teenage girl in 1962 was going to give birth to a 'black' baby"

Actually 1961, and all the more reason to go to Africa.

I was a senior in High School then, and we had a white girl that was pregnant with a black child, and she faced nothing worse than the other pregnant students did.