The two met and fell in love, getting married seemingly without a whole lot of waiting around.
Luckily, she found refuge at a local salon, which happened to be the headquarters for an activist group headed up by Yusuf Gatewood’s Raymond Chestnut.
When Allison showed up in Dallas after Number Five’s botched time-travel rescue at the end of Season 1, she realized she was stuck at a point in time prior to advances in the civil rights era, where Black citizens weren’t served at certain establishments.
In this scenario, Allison avoided using her powers not due to injury (as in the comic), but rather a choice not to muck things up, though she later reneged on that choice during a particularly heartbreaking scene when the activists’ sit-in got violently disrupted by police.