Junction City (KS) Union, November 8, 1879, p. 2. ANTI-COLOR MARRIAGE Joe Howard, a negro, played the banjo for pennies in the saloons, stores and streets of Jeffersonville, Indiana. He was frequently allowed to perform in the millinery establishment of Mrs. Martin, a young white widow. His music won her, and Monday they were united in marriage by the Rev. Mr. Miller, a negro. Miller and Howard are in jail awaiting trial, such wedlock being a crime in Indiana.