Today in 1889, teenager Ella Myers, a veteran of San Francisco's Magdalen Asylum, was sent back to the girls' prison -- apparently for being intimate with a Black man she hoped to marry. I'm only guessing at Ella's race, but white/Black marriage was illegal in CA 1850-1948. pic.twitter.com/iJzs4jCDXZ
— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) May 29, 2022