Early Life
She was born as Janet Leola Floyd in Indianapolis and raised in an Indianapolis housing project by her mother, who worked as a maid and hospital ward secretary. According to her book, Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance, she is Multiracial having African, European and Native American heritage. Her unmarried mother, Mary, formed a relationship with her father, Sewell Bridges, an African-American man at a young age. Bridges served in World War II and abandoned his family after the war.
In 1959, Floyd earned her high school diploma from Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis. She was a member of the band and debate team. From 1960 until 1962, she attended Butler University, a private liberal arts university in Indianapolis founded by abolitionist and attorney Ovid Butler in 1855.
Floyd was married to Melvin Anthony Langhart for one year. Her second of three marriages was to Dr. Robert Kistner, a Harvard Medical School professor who specialized in the treatment of endometriosis. Floyd, now Langhart, was married to Kistner from 1978 to 1989.
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