Interracial Marriages:

The History of Denying African-Americans & WHITES the Right to Marry

CHAINS OF LOVE:
Slaves are not people in the eyes of the law

Almighty God created the races...and placed them on different continents,

and but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause
for such marriages. The fact that [God] separated the races shows that he
did not intend the races to mix
- Virginia Trial Judge Leon Bazille

The Changing Nature of Interracial Marriage

ARTICLE XIII

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,

except as a punishment for crime whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction."

VIRGINIA: ANTI -MISCEGENATION STATUE

Maryland passes state law that criminalizes

interracial marriages and interracial sex

Pace Vs. Alabama

ALABAMA

U.S STATES BY THE DATE OF REPEAL OF ANTI-MISCEGENATION LAWS:

No laws passed
Repealed before 1887
Repealed from 1948 to 1967
Overturned on 12 June 1967

Loving Vs. Virginia

1967 Supreme Court Decision

Ended all restrictions on interracial marriage in the
United States.

TIMELINE ON GALLUP POLL DATA REGARDING MARRIAGE FOR INTERRACIAL COUPLES

1948 Perez Vs. Sharp CA

4%

1958 Gallup Poll

94%

1967 Loving Vs.Virginia

20%

1968 Gallup Poll

72%

29%

1972 Gallup Poll

60%

36%

1978 Gallop Poll

43%

1983 Gallup Poll

54%

52%
42% 48%

1991 Gallup Poll

0%

25%

50%

75%

Approve

100%

Disapprove

DO YOU DISAPPROVE OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN

BLACKS AND WHITES?

% APPROVE

90%

67.5%

73%

79%

86%

64%
45%

22.5%

0%

29%

4%

1958

17%

20%

1963

1968

1973

36%

1978

43%

46%

48%

1983

1988

1993

1998

2003

2008

2010

1958 wording: ...marriages between white and colored people

1968-1978 wording: ...marriages between whites and non-whites

GALLUP POLL

In a poll of Mississippi
voters last April [2011],
nearly half of the
registered Republicans
said they thought
interracial marriage
should be outlawed.

Keith Bardwell,

Justice of the Peace-LA

October 2009:
Refused to officiate the civil
wedding of Beth Humphrey and
Terence McKay, an interracial
couple, because of his personal
views.

INTERRACIAL
MARRIAGES TODAY