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    Where interracial marriage was still illegal in the US in 1966

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    1. vladgrinch on

      This map shows which US states still prohibited interracial marriage in 1966, the last full year before such laws were struck down. The bans, shown in red, were concentrated across the South, while the rest of the country had either repealed its laws or never adopted them. On 12 June 1967 the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loving v. Virginia invalidated the remaining bans in a single decision. At that point 16 states still enforced anti-miscegenation laws, which made the marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving a crime in their home state of Virginia. The ruling ended statutes that had run in American law since the colonial era.

    6. No_Safety_6803 on

      Alabama was the last state to officially remove their state ban in…2000. 25 of 67 counties voted against the referendum.

    7. MrTeeWrecks on

      I know when it was legalized in Nebraska, 1963, cuz the my grandparents got ‘remarried’ cuz Nebraska wouldn’t recognize their marriage documents from Illinois

    9. Desertswampfrog-99 on

      In Texas Before 1966 Mexicans and Blacks were allowed to marry. Mexicans and White were allowed to marry. However, Black and White were not allowed to marry.

    10. kms2547 on

      And 45 years later, most of the same states were using most of the same excuses to ban same-sex marriage.

    17. NiftyJet on

      “States that historically institutionalized racism institutionalized racism in this specific way in 1966.”

      What a shocker!

    20. Hot-Job-6281 on

      Sure, but it’s more interesting that just a year earlier in 1965, Asian migration was banned except for “war brides”.

    24. BoutTreeFittee on

      The rest of the country still just doesn’t *really* comprehend how racist our parents are in the South. I guess the existence of Trump’s second term does showcase it somewhat though.

    30. tavikravenfrost on

      My grandparents got married overseas, but it would have been illegal for them to marry in my grandfather’s home state at the time. When my grandmother moved to the US a few years after their marriage, my grandfather’s sister and two nieces took her to the DMV to get a driver’s license, and the DMV manager tried to refuse service to my grandmother until my grandfather’s sister and nieces persuaded him otherwise. Much of my grandfather’s family was made up burly farmers who weren’t keen on taking that kind of BS, so these ladies weren’t nice about it in persuading him. When my grandfather came back home from his deployment, he heard about the DMV incident, and my grandmother had to talk him down from going down there to beat the hell out of the DMV manager.