years, these words even more potent after her death. the loss of rebecca, i will never forget. if there is a god she was in a good and loving home. she was adopted, by a black family in chicago, angel grew up in that loving home marge imagined. amy grew up to be a journalist. the women s lives converging when amy tracked down and found angel just two years ago leading to this meeting. i was relieved that when she told me what happened to her and her upbringing and thanked me actually. reporter: she thanked you? yes, for doing what i did. she felt that it would have been a bad thing for her to have been brought up in that neighborhood. do you feel better about what happened? i feel better, but i would still have liked to have my sister. when we come back, going to talk to amy and angel.
wanted to adopt a child, when the baby arrived the baby was angel and the baby was black. and they lived in an all white neighborhood, and they sent the baby back and eventually got amy. so, amy, in 2012 after the tray von martin story and that motivated you to figure this out and try to find angel. yeah, i mean i started watching, you know, the daily news of stories about police misconduct and how blacks were being treated and our criminal justice system, and i started getting angry, honestly. it wasn t like i didn t know that these things were happening, but it just became so prevalent. and then sandra blaine was i think probably the straw for me. because i linked it to rebecca in my head, a woman. and i wanted to know as my
mother wondered in her diary whether or not angel was okay. rebecca is the name your family originally gave angel. angel, you were adopted by a black family after amy s family sent you back. tell me about your upbringing, comfortable, loving family and you guys sort of lived in the same town or near each other, right? well, i grew up in chicago. i went to private school in high park. amy was in deer field, so we weren t really close together. but i went to school in high park, and we had a really good up brnging. my parents were business owners. he had a summer home up in union pier, michigan. and i just had a very diverse lifestyle. the people of my school were of all nationalities. and my parents really loved me, and i was raised by an entire
community of aunts and uncles but nobody blood. so my understanding of family, you know, from the very beginning was much deeper than blood. and then after that, as you became an adult you fell on some hard times, right? you had trouble. i did, i did. but you pulled yourself back together and you became reacquainted with your children. absolutely. do you think that race had anything to do with that or was it just growing up and living just growing up and living in america. i think this story has no color. the face of it has no color. it could be anyone. especially my hardships. and, you know, i like to think that it has nothing to do with race, however, i m a little smarter than that. and do understand, you know, his decision was about race. but my life has not been racially motivated, shall i say. amy, although you grew up in
but also once i knew about my parents child before me, in the back of my head there was always a voice saying i need to find that person. how did you find out? i was about 9 years old, and my brothers were playing football in the backyard. and i came out, and i was a tomboy, and i was wearing a football jersey, and one of my brothers said, you know, girls don t wear football jerseys. why don t you dress like a real girl like our other sister. and i could tell something had been said. and i ran to my mom and she said listen carefully because i m only going to fell you this story once. and she only told me once. the story was the family