Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone
Upon marrying a white man, Leonard Rhinelander, in 1924,
Alice Jones, a
former nanny, became the first black woman to be listed in the Social
Register as a member of New York's wealthiest families. When their
marriage became a public scandal, the two found themselves thrust into the
glare of public scrutiny and into a Westchester courtroom. Here the
author tells the story of the marriage and the annulment trial that opened
the lives of two vastly different families to the media.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books