Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his work on the Treaty of Portsmouth. This treaty ended up ending the war between the Japanese and the Russians.
Maybe that bi-racial relationships where on the rise, and to me it showed rich, famous, Black,white, domestic problems can occur in any relationship.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed where white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights. Examples school segagration, right to vote, and interracial marriage