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"Too important to be ignored…A fascinating look at America's obsession with race, pride, and privilege." —Essence A modern Cinderella must defend her fairy-tale marriage in a scandal that rocked jazz-age America. When Alice Jones, a former domestic, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into an annulment trial.

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Love on Trial  An American Scandal in Black and White
  • Author : Heidi Ardizzone
  • Release : 17 May 2002
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN : 9780393247466
  • Genre : History
  • Total Page : 324 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 20,6 Mb

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