Respect where it's due: BM/WW IR in History

Barney and Betty Hill

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The couple that started the UFO abduction craze.

The night was cloudless and starry. The Hills stopped for coffee at a roadside diner around 10 p.m. and figured they’d get home around 3 a.m., the couple recounted in The Interrupted Journey, a 1966 book about their experience co-written with John G. Fuller. They got back in the car and continued home. Sometime later, Betty looked out the passenger-side window and saw a bright object following them. At her insistence Barney parked the car, got out, and looked at the object through a pair of binoculars.

The object was a spacecraft with a set of double windows through which Barney could clearly see “at least half a dozen living beings.” They were wearing uniforms and looking straight at him.

Barney was terrified. He raced back to the car and pulled off the highway onto a winding side road to lose the craft. The couple heard a series of loud beeps, and then each felt “an odd tingling drowsiness come over them,” Fuller wrote, followed by “a sort of haze.” When they next regained consciousness, they were 35 miles down the highway. Groggily, they continued home....
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https://qz.com/1019806/a-stressed-s...vented-the-modern-alien-abduction-phenomenon/

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Some side facts about Barney Hill. He was a civil rights activist and received several awards for his work.
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John & Shirley Billy, together since 1954 and married in 1957.

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In September 1954, John Billy & his group, "The Honey Boys," were performing at an all-white club in Baltimore when he spotted Shirley Howard, a white woman, and asked for a dance.

Their connection was immediate. Shirley's mother insisted she stay away from John, but there was no stopping their love. When Shirley gave birth to their first child two years later, their son was taken to an orphanage & Shirley was arrested.

She spent a day & a half in jail before paying $1,000 bail for "permitting herself to be begotten with child by a negro or mulatto." Shirley was the only person be prosecuted in MD under the law.

On April 22, 1957, a judge dismissed the indictment against Shirley & declared the law written in 1715 as unconstitutional. She & John later married in D.C. in 1958 as interracial marriage was still illegal in MD.

The couple moved back to Baltimore, where they still live today. It took two more years to get their son back. Despite all they endured, John and Shirley say their faith and love helped them overcome racism, discrimination and a 241-year-old law.
 
Farzaneh & Jack Guillebeaux, married in 1965.

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In 1965 they fell in love in Asheville, North Carolina where interracial marriage was illegal. They decided to drive 500 miles north to Wilmette, Illinois and wed in the Baha'i temple there. Their wedding went forward under a bomb threat. Their silver anniversary earned an apology from the Asheville government in 1990.
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Since they won't embed for some reason, here's a link to some videos where they share their story:

https://www.raceunity.us/farzaneh-j...FgyAquWm9jyJNJOTK3CxWAZ-lsKPJGLB0nV2Q-x67i5TQ
 
Tamstrong said:
Farzaneh & Jack Guillebeaux, married in 1965.

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Since they won't embed for some reason, here's a link to some videos where they share their story:

https://www.raceunity.us/farzaneh-j...FgyAquWm9jyJNJOTK3CxWAZ-lsKPJGLB0nV2Q-x67i5TQ
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It's so funny that they fell in love in Asheville, North Carolina but couldn't marry there. That city literally just approved reparations lol.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...arations-black-residents-historic/5441792002/
 
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10 Fascinating Interracial Marriages in History

Attitudes towards Interracial marriage have changed dramatically, in just the last generation. In the United States it was just 43 years ago when interracial marriage was made fully legal in all 50 states. Today, in many countries, interracial marriage is commonplace and most don’t even give it a second thought. However, as we all know, it wasn’t always this way in the past. This list includes individuals who didn’t let the prejudice of society make their decisions in life, and also paved the way for interracial couples in the future. Note: Interracial marriage can convey a relationship between a Black and an Asian, a White and an Asian, a Hispanic and an Asian, a White and a Hispanic, etc. In this particular list I have included only black and white relationships.


Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson
Married in 1952

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Pearl Mae Bailey was a famous actress and singer and Louie Bellson was a famous jazz drummer, composer and bandleader. Bellson was Duke Ellington’s first white musician and met Bailey after being introduced by a trombone player. After a courtship lasting just four days they were married, in London. It was Bailey’s third marriage and Bellson’s first. Interracial couples were a rarity at the time, and even Bellson’s presence in the Ellington band raised some eyebrows. During some dates in some Southern cities in the United States, Ellington would claim that Bellson was of Haitian background. After their wedding, Louie Bellson spent much of his time as Pearl Bailey’s musical director, writing her arrangements and leading her accompanying bands. The Couple were married for 38 years, until Bailey’s death in 1990, at age 72. Bellson died at age 84, in 2009. The couple adopted a boy, Tony, in the mid-1950s, and girl Dee Dee, in 1960.Interesting Fact: Bailey served as a United Nations’ Goodwill Ambassador under several Republican Presidential Administrations. Even after the majority of African-Americans moved from The Republican Party to The Democratic Party in 1964, Pearl Bailey remained with The Republican Party because The Republican Party was where she and Louis Bellson found the greatest acceptance for their interracial marriage.

Betty & Barney Hill
Married in 1960

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Betty and Barney Hill were from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Barney worked for the post office and Betty was a social worker. The Hills were also members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and community leaders. On the night of September19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were heading back from a vacation in Southern Canada to their home in New England. They claimed to have observed a bright light in the sky that appeared to be following them. They arrived home at about 3 am and realized (later, when it was pointed out to them) that they had lost about 2 hours of time. Two weeks later Betty began having nightmares. In her nightmares, she described being taken aboard an alien spacecraft and then having medical experiments performed on her. Betty and Barney then decided to undergo hypnosis. In separate sessions, they described some similar experiences of being taken on board an alien spacecraft. Betty said she was shown a star map which she was able to memorize and reproduce later, which some believe is showing Zeta Reticuli as the aliens’ home. Under Barneys hypnotic session he said a cup-like device was placed over his genitals and thought that a sperm sample was taken. He also said he heard them speaking in a mumbling language that he did not understand. The UFO incident was distracting and embarrassing for Barney Hill. He feared that the tabloid publicity would tarnish his battle for equality and dignity. The Hills eventually went back to their regular lives but were always willing to discuss the UFO encounter with friends and UFO researchers. The release of the book “Interrupted Journey” in the mid-1960s, and a movie called The UFO Incident, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons turned Betty and Barney Hill into the world’s most famous UFO “abductees.” Interesting Fact: Some psychiatrists suggested later that the supposed abduction was a hallucination brought on by the stress of being an interracial couple in early 60s. Betty discounted this suggestion, saying that her relationship with Barney was happy, and their interracial marriage caused no notable problems with their friends or family. Barney died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1969, and Betty died of cancer in 2004. Many of Betty Hill’s notes, tapes and other items have been placed in a permanent collection at the library of the University of New Hampshire, her alma mater.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley
Married in 1899

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was one of Britain’s most outstanding and celebrated composers. He was born to a white mother and black father and was raised in the London suburb of Croydon. At the age of just 23 he produced his most famous work; a musical called Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. Some describe it as one of the most remarkable events in English musical history. Coleridge-Taylor married Jessie Walmisley, in 1899. She was a pianist and a classmate of Samuel’s in high school. Jessie’s family had been vehemently opposed to the marriage and had done all in its power to prevent it. On the day before the wedding, Mrs. Walmisley invited Samuel to the family home where she and her husband shook his hand in a formal gesture of acceptance. Coleridge-Taylor and his family were targets of abuse from groups of local youths who would repeatedly shower him with insulting comments about the color of his skin. His daughter later recalled “when he saw them approaching along the street he held my hand more tightly, gripping it until it almost hurt.”On September 1, 1912, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor died of pneumonia complicated by exhaustion from overwork. He was just 37 years old. Hundreds turned out for his funeral and a memorial concert which was held to raise money for his widow and his two children, Hiawatha and Gwendoline, who would both go on to have musical careers.Interesting Fact: It emerged that the publishers of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast had paid Coleridge-Taylor just 15 guineas (£15.75) for the composition, which earned the company a fortune. Their refusal to grant the widow a fair royalty resulted in the formation of the Performing Rights Society, which has exacted fair dues for composers in Britain ever since.

Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt
Married in 1960

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When Sammy Davis Jr. married Swedish-born actress May Britt in 1960, interracial marriages were forbidden by law in 31 US states. Earlier that year the Democratic Convention took place in Los Angeles where John F. Kennedy would be elected as the Democrats’ presidential nominee. When the introductions of Hollywood celebrities were being announced, Davis was booed by many of the white Southern delegates because he was engaged to a white woman. A headline over a New York Times story the next day read, “Delegates Boo Negro.” JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, was worried that Davis’ marriage to a white woman on the eve of the November election might cost his son votes, so Davis reluctantly postponed the wedding until after the election. At the wedding Frank Sinatra was the best man along with many other stars, including Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Milton Berle and Edward G. Robinson. During their marriage the couple received hate mail and were targets of nasty jokes and vicious slurs. Because Davis performed almost continuously he spent very little time with his wife. They divorced in 1968, after Davis admitted to having had an affair with singer Lola Falana. Davis and Britt had a daughter and also adopted two sons. Interesting Fact: Before Davis met Britt, he had a relationship with actress Kim Novak. A contract by the mob was allegedly put out on Davis’s life. Frank Sinatra intervened but Davis still feared for his life and married a black showgirl. The marriage only lasted a few months and was later annulled. Some consider Novak the love of Davis’ life. Before he died of throat cancer, Davis’s third wife, Altovise, allowed Novak to visit. She and Sammy spent hours talking and reminiscing just weeks before he died, in 1990.
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Sammy and Mai's daughter who wrote a book about it died last year.
 
I had a real good one to add here but I forgot their names. lol.

If anyone can help me out this is all I remember:

-Ancient Egypt I think the 24th dynasty
-He was an Egyptian Pharoah
-She was greek or roman
-He battled the Romans
 
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