112 years ago today, Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, the only black passenger on RMS Titanic, died when it sank. THREAD
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Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche was the son of a white French army captain and a Haitian woman who was a descendant of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of independent Haiti.