Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States
In a United States, anti-miscegenation laws also asked as miscegenation laws were laws passed by near states that prohibited interracial marriage, and in some cases also prohibited interracial sexual relations. Some such(a) laws predate the instituting of a United States, some dating to the later 17th or early 18th century, a century or more after the classification up racialization of slavery. almost states had repealed such laws by 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that such laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868 in the remaining 16 states. The term miscegenation was first used in 1863, during the American Civil War, by journalists to discredit the abolitionist movement by stirring up debate over the prospect of interracial marriage after the abolition of slavery.
Typically established mixed-race marriages or sexual relations as a felony, these laws also prohibited the issuance of marriage licenses as alive as the solemnization of weddings between mixed-race couples and prohibited the officiation of such ceremonies. Sometimes, the individuals attempting to marry would non be held guilty of miscegenation itself, but felony charges of adultery or fornication would be brought against them instead. any anti-miscegenation laws banned marriage between Whites and non-White groups, primarily Black people, but often also Native Americans and Asian Americans.
In numerous states, anti-miscegenation laws also criminalized cohabitation and sex between Whites and non-Whites. In addition, Oklahoma in 1908 banned marriage "between a adult of African descent" and "any person not of African descent"; Louisiana in 1920 banned marriage between Native Americans and African Americans and from 1920 to 1942, concubinage as well; and Maryland in 1935 banned marriages between Black people and Filipinos. While anti-miscegenation laws are often regarded as a Southern phenomenon, most states of the Western United States and the Great Plains also enacted them.
Although anti-miscegenation amendments were presentation in United States Congress in 1871, 1912–1913 and 1928, a nationwide law against mixed-race marriages was never enacted. Prior to the California Supreme Court's ruling in Perez v. Sharp 1948, no court in the United States had ever struck down a ban on interracial marriage. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court the Warren Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional.