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Monument Project: Opposition to Miscegenation

Miscegenation

Alabama Proposed Statewide Amendment Number 2, 2000
A symbolic vote, Alabama is the last state to remove the state prohibition of interracial marriage in 2000.
Illinois Miscegenation Law Passed 1829
Law was repealed in 1874

Lee, Robert E. NC Prohibits Any Marriage Between Races. (1963, Nov. 10). North Carolina Telegram. 7A.

Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, applied to the American White Man and Negro. New York: H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., 1864.
RACE QUESTION. (1874, Nov 02). Chicago Daily Tribune
US Supreme Court Case: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
A unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races, holding that these anti-miscegenation statutes violated both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Virginia Health Bulletin: The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity, March 1924
See documents on the right hand side.

William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Philadelphia: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 3:86–88.
1691 Virginia law prohibited marriage between white people and Black or Indigenous people.
Early example of colonial anti-miscegenation legislation.