![]() "My adopted father was wonderful," Atkins said. Principal No More: Principal Andrew Wells, an East Lansing High School staple, is retiring Two years later they adopted Sonny (formerly Odell Springer), who was also born to a white woman and a Black father. The Saginaw couple adopted Rosemary in 1948 at a Detroit foster care. She eventually convinced both Atkins' mother and grandmother to place her in foster care.Ītkins grew up having unconditional love from her adoptive father Clyde James, and what she describes as conditional, sometimes violent love from her adoptive mother Billie Alice Bowman. Her birth mother's great-grandmother didn't want Black people in the family and fought to put Atkins, who was then named Rosemary Lupo, up for adoption. ![]() ![]() Atkins wrote in her memoir that her birth mother, a white Italian woman, had a secret relationship with a Black man that resulted in her becoming pregnant. ![]()
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