Let's go back to 1967.
That was the year interracial marriage made headlines. Just take the Hollywood classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Thefilm was a new kind of love story for Hollywood. The movie was about a black man who wanted to marry a white woman — a huge taboo at the time.
According to a 1968 Gallup Poll, just 20 percent of Americans thought it was OK for a white person to marry a black person. White Americans were far less likely to accept the idea than blacks.
