Andrea and Sylvester: Challenging Marriage Taboos and Paving the Road to Same-Sex Marriage

by Robert Dodge

In 1941 a young couple met and fell in love; but one of them was considered Black while the other was considered White. Laws against intermarriage between races had been upheld by every court in the United States since Reconstruction, after the Civil War.Andrea and Sylvester - a Mexican-American woman and an African-American man - challenged these laws and won, and their success inspired changes that ended that taboo. When same-sex marriage became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628941596
• ISBN13: 9781628941593
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Length: 294 Pages