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# The Great Wedding Scandal of 1909
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/the-great-wedding-scandal-of-1909-kiuylj/
- Published: 2026-11-03T18:15:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-05T16:30:17.000Z
- Description: A white woman and a Japanese man in fell in love. They fled to Seattle but hate followed.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 12, Episode 4, #ZZZ_Episode_a22e2c81-0630-4b68-b761-6420acea88f0, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

A young white woman in California and a Japanese man in her father’s household fell in love. Such mixed-race marriages were illegal there, so the couple fled to Washington to get married. Violence, death threats and massive media coverage followed them. Still, some in Seattle denounced the union in the name of upholding Anglo-Saxon “purity.”