Carl Emil Pettersson (23 October 1875 – 12 May 1937) was a Swedish sailor who became a plantage owner on Tabar Island in Papua New Guinea after he was shipwrecked in 1904. On Tabar he met the local Princess Singdo who he came to marry in 1907. The couple got nine children (whereof one died early). His wife unfortunately died in 1921 because of illness.
Later he married an Anglo Swedish woman. He also struck gold from which he could get an income when his Copra plantage failed.
It is said that when children book author Astrid Lindgren created the father to her heroine Pippi Longstocking, she was inspired by the story of Carl E Petterson. In Lindgrens books Pippi´s father is a king in the South Sea
Carl Emil Petterson and Singdo with their children.
Mildred Loving and her husband Richard Loving who fought in the court to have the right to live as married in the state of Virginia. They finally won and after that marriage between black and white people became allowed in all states in USA. This was as late as 1967.
quote: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[1][2] The case involved Mildred Loving, a woman of color,[a] and her white husband Richard Loving, who in 1958 were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Their marriage violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". The Lovings appealed their conviction to the Supreme Court of Virginia, which upheld it. They then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear their case.
In June 1967, the Supreme Court issued an unanimous decision in the Lovings' favor and overturned their convictions. Its decision struck down Virginia's anti-miscegenation law and ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic