When did interracial marriage become legal in all fifty US states?
1967 Regulated by state law, miscegenation was illegal in many states for decades. However, interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, that decreed all state anti- miscegenation laws unconstitutional.
What counts as interracial marriage?
Interracial marriage is a form of marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation.
When was interracial marriage legal in Michigan?
1838 Laws repealed through 1887StateFirst law passedLaw repealedMichigan18381883New Mexico18571866Ohio18611887Pennsylvania172517808 more rows