Love on Trial
An American Scandal in Black and White| By: | Heidi Ardizzone; Earl Lewis |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton |
| Print ISBN: | 9780393323092 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780393247466 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.