His mother Shirley is a descendant of freed slave Thomas W. Cross, was reared on a family farm in Blanchard, Michigan and is related to Dr. Merze Tate, the first African American woman to attend the University of Oxford and to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University (then Radcliffe College).
Merze Tate, professor, scholar and expert on United States diplomacy, was born in rural Blanchard.
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