resting_place death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date known_for spouse article_title name occupation death_cause
woodlawn cemetery long beach , new york , u.s. 20 february 1936 pelham , new york , u.s. american 09 may 1903 '' rhinelander v. rhinelander '' alice jones 1924 1929 divorced kip rhinelander
 kip rhinelander socialite lobar pneumonia
kip rhinelander

leonard `` kip '' rhinelander -lrb- may 9 , 1903 -- february 20 , 1936 -rrb- was an american socialite and a member of the socially prominent and wealthy new york rhinelander family .
his marriage at the age of 21 to alice jones , a biracial woman who was a working-class daughter of english immigrants , made national headlines in 1924 .
their 1925 divorce trial highlighted contemporary strains related to the instability of the upper class , as well as racial anxiety about `` passing '' at a time when new york was a destination for numerous blacks from the south in the great migration and immigrants from southern and eastern europe .
the trial also touched on the vague legal definition of the time as to who was to be considered `` white '' or `` colored , '' alternately portraying race as biologically determined and knowable or as more fluid .
