Strange Country Ep. 298: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
We love our trials of the century here at Strange Country and this one is a doozy. It's likely one you've never heard of: Rhinelander v Rhinelander. See a young aristocrat married a domestic worker and everyone went all "heavens to betsy" about it, but what made it bring out the worst in people was that the working class bride was biracial. This was in 1924 before the country accepted interracial marriage and the KKK was on the resurgence—or what we could now call the present time.
Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands
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Greene, Bryan. "How an Interracial Marriage…
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