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Alice Rhinelander And Family Art Print
by Bettmann
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Alice Rhinelander And Family art print by Bettmann. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Alice Rhinelander (C) sits with her sisters and other family members during the annulment trail of her marriage to Leonard Kip Rhinelander. Alice... more
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Alice Rhinelander (C) sits with her sisters and other family members during the annulment trail of her marriage to Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander. Alice Jones was the daughter of working-class English immigrants; her mother was white and her father of mixed ethnicity. Alice and Leonard married in 1924, but because of his family's high social status and Alice's "non-white" blood, their marriage quickly came under public scrutiny. The Rhinelander family came to publicly disapprove of their union and two weeks after the wedding were able to pressure Leonard into bringing an annulment lawsuit against Alice on the grounds that she had lied to him about her ethnicity. The case highlighted America's obsession with racial categorization and the taboo against mixed ethnicity marriages. On December 6, 1925 the jury ruled in Alice's favor, saying that her multi-racial herit
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