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Wasn't interracial marriage illegal in the US until the 20th Ceentury?

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Wasn't interracial marriage illegal in the US until the 20th Ceentury? Yes, and no. That is, it wasn't established as a federal Constitutional right until the decision in Loving v. Virginia (1967), but there were many states where it was legal prior to that (in fact, it was legal in 6 of the 13 original colonies at the time of independence, and there are several states that never passed laws prohibiting it.) And even then, the laws that were passed only consistently prohibited whites from marrying blacks, though some of them also included all or specific other non-white "races".
  • wan23 10y ago
    I was reading about this case yesterday and found it really fascinating how the anti-miscegenation law in Virginia was crafted in what I imagine as the meanest way possible. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/388/1 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/388/1