The Color of Time : Abe Markman : 9780692987308 : 31 Jan 2018 : "The Color of Time" focuses on how I and my African-American wife dealt with five generations of changing attitudes to our marriage. My observations were influenced by years as an inner-city social group worker and activist, and as a white man, married in 1953 to a brown-skinned woman, Charlotte Elaine Cochran. At that time, entering such a union was considered by many as an outrageous affront to their sensibilities and beyond acceptable behavior. What mattered most to us, however, was the devotion we had to each other, to the success of our marriage, and to our children and grandchildren. They came into our arms and our world with distinct personalities, tendencies, aptitudes, skin colors, and hair textures. How we all fared and adapted was heavily dependent on whether we were born before, during or after the civil rights movement of the 1960s. I tried to describe as sensitively as I could both our own and other people's