Interracial Marriage

By christinacacc

  • 1664

    1664
    Maryland bans marriage between whites and slaves, ultimately ordering the enslavement of white women who have married black men.

  • 1691

    1691
    The Commonwealth of Virginia bans all interracial marriage. Any white person who married a person of color was threatened with exile, ultimately serving as a death sentence.

  • 1780

    1780
    Pennsylvania repeals a law set in place in 1725 that banned interracial marriage in an attempt to gradually abolish slavery.

  • 1843

    1843
    Massachusetts becomes the second state to repeal laws banning interracial marriages.

  • 1871

    1871
    Rep. Andrew King makes the first of three attempts to propose a US constitutional amendment banning marriage between whites and people of color in every state.

  • 1883

    1883
    The US Supreme Court unanimously rules in Pace v. Alabama that state-level bans on interracial marriage do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the constitution.

  • 1912

    1912
    The second attempt to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states is proposed by Rep. Seaborn Roddenbery.

  • 1928

    1928
    Sen. Coleman Blease, a known KKK supporter, makes the third attempt to ban interracial marriage in every state.

  • 1964

    1964
    McLaughlin v. Florida rules that laws banning interracial sex violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the US constitution.

  • 1967

    1967
    The US Supreme court overturns Pace v Alabama. Loving v Virginia rules that state bans on interracial marriage violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • 2000

    2000
    Alabama becomes the last state to officially legalize interracial marriage.