And Roy Campanella's father was WHITE.Nothing at all was done to him!
Yes but weren't his parents not living in the South? There's no way they would have been able to get married down there. It was against the law.
What a stupid comment !
Since the dawn of human history privileged males could always use unprivileged females as their concubines, courtesans, geishas, right of the first night, slave girls, comfort girls, mistresses, etc. It has always been okay since 1620 for a white man to sleep with a black women. African Americans would look a whole lot more African if that weren't true. Conversely it has never been okay until recently for a black man to show any attraction to a white woman. Even now, this much time after 1965, how often do you see black movie stars playing romantic lead with white leading ladies ? Because it is still an issue. It is okay for Halle Berry to do a love scene with Pierce Brosnan. It is not okay for Will Smith to do a love scene with Reese Witherspoon. He CAN do a love scene with Eva Mendes because Latina isn't quite "white".