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Kathryn Schumaker
Kathryn Schumaker is senior lecturer of American studies at the University of Sydney. The author of Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s, she lives in Australia.
In 1865, when Black people in Mississippi first gained the legal right to marriage, so-called Black Codes outlawed interracial marriage, punishable by life in prison. Five years later, Republicans in the Mississippi state leg...
