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Who was the first black male and white female married couple in the States?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago
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    Jack Johnson (boxer) (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). In 1912, Johnson opened a successful and luxurious "black and tan" (desegregated) restaurant and nightclub, which in part was run by his wife, a white woman. Major newspapers of the time soon claimed that Johnson was attacked by the government only after he became famous as a black man married to a white woman, and was linked to other white women. Johnson was arrested on charges of violating the Mann Act—forbidding one to transport a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes"—a racially motivated charge that embroiled him in controversy for his relationships, including marriages, with white women. There were also allegations of domestic violence. Sentenced to a year in prison, Johnson fled the country and fought boxing matches abroad for seven years until 1920 when he served his sentence at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth.

  • Anonymous
    7 months ago

    well if you are ok with someone half white as a "black" it was Frederick Douglas and his wife Helen Pitts in 1885.

    https://listverse.com/2011/01/25/10-fascinating-in...

    The black boxer Jack Johnson and his white wife Etta married in 1911.She shot and killed herself only 8 months latter.

  • 1 year ago

    They probably weren't the first but the first I ever heard of was Barney and Betty Hill. They were married in 1960 but they became famous for a different reason.

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Brian and Jill..............

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