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Property rites : the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor.

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In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a "colored" cabman. After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the...

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Main Author: Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Rhinelander, Leonard Kip > Trials, litigation, etc.
Jones, Alice Beatrice > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Divorce) > New York (State) > Westchester County.
Marriage > Annulment > New York (State) > Westchester County.
Interracial marriage > New York (State) > Westchester County.
Scandals > New York (State) > Westchester County.
Jones, Alice Beatrice.
Rhinelander, Leonard Kip.
Interracial marriage.
Marriage > Annulment.
Scandals.
Trials (Divorce)
New York (State) > Westchester County.
Trials, litigation, etc.

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Call Number: KF228.R486 S62 2009eb
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