How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties
Source: Smithsonian
Bryan Greene Contributing Writer The New York Daily News accused the young woman of switching off the hallway light at her parents’ house so the reporters outside the door could only see her in semi-darkness. “I’m not colored,” Alice Beatrice Jones told the newspaper, which published her comments in a November 14, 1924, article headlined “Blueblood Weds Colored Girl.” “I’m going to sue the papers that have called…
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