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in this historic episode is being r> - told in detail-perhaps forthe first T' time at the exhibit. Two of the museum's “program interpreters” -" are portraying the couple, giving patrons an interactive history lesd- " son about the Laroches throughouttheexhibit’sseveii month run. Other passengers being portrayed include socialite Margaret !«uMolly” Brown and Capt. Ed-

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1 torical Society are credited with ^ first uncovering the information. * Cheryl Colbert, who attended the exhibit preview, said, “I had * no idea there were people of color '' aboard the Titanic in any capacity. But it shows you that people 1 of color are a part of everyone’s J history.” Although author and historian Geller said Juliette Laroche was white, Browder said she didn’t •--'think her portrayal was historically inaccurate. o.. • “I’ve seen her picture, T ve seen ,rs her features,” Browdersaid. “She f,..'definitely looks like she could -r.-have been mixed to me.” Either sC • way, the presence of the Laroches fu-in the museum’s exhibit is part of o; * what makes it special, observers ” said. “I don’t know why it hasn’t js-ijgotten more attention.” .r “I find it a very unique story,” y-f said Geller. “There are people yl.V within the Titanic community «>!... who have always known the story, <t> but somehow it just never got

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y; v The Laroches, by survivor acnr counts, were a charming couple

who socialized easily with other ssengers. A mention of the pie’s mixed-race daughters in letter by passenger Kate Buss jleads, “There are two of the finest ^Jittle Jap(anese) baby girls, about Jthree or four years old, who look st like dolls running about.” Transported on the rescue ship ^Carpathia', Juliette Laroche, whose feet were frozen, and her daughters arrived in New York, where they were treated at St. Vincent's Hospital. She later returned to France, where Joseph Lemercier Laroche was bom on Dec. 17, 1912. Juliette Laroche never remarried and never spoke of the disaster except in letters to the Titanic* Historical Society, said co-founder Karen Kamuda. Laroche died in 1980. Her daughters never married. The younger Joseph Laroche, who married and had three children,

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) ( i We married in March 1908.” They never break character.

n , Juliette Laroche, who grew up in rt.;, a prominent, privileged family, (z . • was accustomed to traveling first

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- v . about the lack of adequate heatu . ing in the Titanic’s second-class c- rooms. Laroche regrets that he | E “was unable to find fair wages” - rj ,in France as an engineer, which

forced the couple’s hasty trip to Haiti, where his family was quite prosperous. Laroche worked on the building of one of the early Metro lines in Paris. “We actually had not planned to leave France until 1913, but my wife’s delicate condition made it necessary for us to leave early, while it was still safe for her to travel,” said Armstrong as Laroche. Armstrong and Browder, Chicagoans who are both Black, said they were thrilled to have the opportunity to educate themselves, as well as the public, about this little-known story. French re-

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