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Black love is something you don’t always see in the media but it is around us every day.

Lemuel “Arthur” Lewie Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen and his wife Reva Goodwin Lewie, a retired arts educator, celebrated 70 years of marriage last week. On August 28th, 1948 the couple eloped and got married in South Carolina. Seventy years later Arthur 98, and Reva 88 renew their marriage vows.

Reva told the Baltimore Sun, “My granddaughter once asked me, ‘Grandma, where are the pictures of your wedding? I just told her, ‘There aren’t any, honey, we eloped! Today’s the first time we’ve had it all — the pictures, the reception, everything. It’s wonderful.”

“My granddaughter once asked me, ‘Grandma, where are the pictures of your wedding?'” Reva told the Baltimore Sun “I just told her, ‘There aren’t any, honey, we eloped!’ Today’s the first time we’ve had it all — the pictures, the reception, everything. It’s wonderful.”

Arthur met his wife Reva in the summer of 1947, three days later, he proposed. They went on to move to Baltimore and start their lives together. Arthur would go on to become a science teacher at Carver Vocational Technical High School for 28 years and Reva would spend decades working as an art teacher for several Baltimore City Public schools.

One of their granddaughter’s, Christel Thompson said “let’s take a second to appreciate what 70 years of marriage looks like,” said their granddaughter, Christel Thompson, (It means) 25,550 days, 13 presidents, five major U.S. wars, and that the relationship is older than the microwave oven, cellphones, video games, ATMs, Kevlar, GPS and pacemakers.”

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