THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 18, 1963

• Interracial marriages increase
• Civil Right movement era

The front page has a piece by Fred Powledge on the increase of interracial marriages during the Civil Rights movement with three column heading: "Negro-White Marriages in Rise Here". Lengthy report continues inside with a few related photos. (see images) 
Complete with all 52 pages, minor margin wear, nice condition.

Background: Published on the front page of The New York Times on October 18, 1963 (rather than 1961), Fred Powledge’s landmark news feature, titled "Negro-White Marriages on Rise Here," provided a pioneering look at the steady increase and social dynamics of interracial couples in New York City during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. Written just two months after the historic March on Washington, the article carried immense historical significance by shifting media focus from high-profile political demonstrations to the intimate, everyday human dimensions of racial integration. Powledge explored how couples in progressive urban enclaves like Greenwich Village navigated intense social taboos, familial disapproval, and public scrutiny, contrasting their lived reality in New York with the strict legal bans on miscegenation still enforced by 21 states across the American South and West. By documenting how younger, civil-rights-minded urbanites were actively dismantling traditional racial barriers, Powledge's reporting captured a pivotal cultural transition four years before the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Loving v. Virginia decision legally legalized interracial marriage nationwide in 1967.