Ten For Today: Interracial Romance

Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Janis Ian, Bobby & The Vancouvers, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Hot Chocolate, Martha and the Muffins, The Blasters, Public Enemy

On this day in 1910, Congress passed the White-Slave Traffic Act (now known as The Mann Act) which made a felony the transport across state lines of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." It was ostensibly enacted to outlaw human trafficking, but it was really enacted prosecute Black men who …