Andrea and Sylvester: Challenging Marriage Taboos and Paving the Road to Same-Sex Marriage
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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 a pressing issue, their case was the precedent that first persuaded the courts to allow it. Thus Andrea and Sylvester can be credited with successfully challenging a second marriage taboo.Dodge sets the scene for their personal drama and traces how their example helped establish the momentum toward more liberal marriage laws throughout the United States, culminating with the 2015 Supreme Court's decision to allow same-sex marriage.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1628941596
ISBN13:9781628941593
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:Algora Publishing
Length:294 Pages
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