May Britt – targeted by US racial prejudice

May Britt, the blonde Swedish actress who in her Hollywood heyday starred in War and Peace, The Young Lions and The Blue Angel but found her career ended when she married entertainer Sammy Davis Jnr has died at 91. At that time nearly half of American states banned interracial marriage, which were not legalised nationwide until a 1967 Supreme Court decision. Even J.F.K was alarmed at their presence at a 1963 White House reception because he feared a political backlash if he was viewed as en