{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Strange Country Ep. 298: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander","description":"We love our trials of the century here at Strange Country and this one is a doozy. It\u2019s likely one you\u2019ve never heard of: Rhinelander v Rhinelander. See a young aristocrat married a domestic worker and everyone went all \u201cheavens to betsy\u201d 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\u2014or what we could now call the present time. Theme music: Big White Lie by&amp;nbsp;A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Greene, Bryan. \u201cHow an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties.\u201d Smithsonian Magazine, 20 November 2024, https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/how-an-interracial-marriage-sparked-one-of-the-most-scandalous-trials-of-the-roaring-twenties-180985486\/. Accessed 8 May 2025.     Johnson, Theodore R. \u201cWhen One Of New York's Glitterati Married A 'Quadroon.'\u201d NPR, 7 June 2014, https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2014\/06\/07\/319813854\/when-one-of-new-yorks-glitterati-married-a-quadroon. Accessed 10 May 2025.         &amp;nbsp; Lewis, Earl, and Heidi Ardizzone. Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White. Norton, 2002.  Onwuachi-Willig, Angela. A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Identity, Marriage, and Family , 95 California Law Review 2393 (2007) https:\/\/scholarship.law.bu.edu\/faculty_scholarship\/310          \u201cRhinelanders Flee Glare of Publicity.\u201d The New York Times [New York], 15 November 1924, p. 6, https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1924\/11\/15\/100236265.html?pageNumber=6.     ","author_name":"Strange Country ","author_url":"http:\/\/strangecountry.libsyn.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36650655\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/188596605"}