1967 was a big year for marriage in America. The Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia overturned bans on interracial marriage in 16 states. The movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner starred Sidney Poitier as a Black doctor engaged to a white woman. And in the middle of it all, Peggy Rusk and Guy Smith, a very private couple who made the cover of Time Magazine for their wedding. Mo talks to Peggy Rusk about their remarkable love story (involving presidents and horses) and to Professor Sheryll Cashin about the surprising history of interracial relationships.
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LaWanda Page: Death of a Comedy Queen
Revisiting the Orphan Train: An American Odyssey
Death of a Sports Team: Satchel Paige and Los Dragones
Death of the Very Special Episode
Mobits Extra: How Norman Lear Changed Television
The Habsburg Jaw: Death of a Dynasty
Death of a Nepo Baby
JFK Impersonator Vaughn Meader: Death of a Career
Charlie McCarthy: Death of a Dummy
Things I Wish Would Die
Death of an Accent
Jim Thorpe: Death of an All-American
Peggy Lee: Death of Cool
Died on the Same Day (with special guest Anderson Cooper)
Introducing: Season 4 of Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
Timothy Scott: Death of a Dancer
Benedict Arnold: Before They Went Bad
The Gros Michel: Death of a Banana
Samantha Smith: Death of a Peacemaker
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