Interracial marriage laws now fifty years old

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2017 – Interracial marriages became legal nationwide in June 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, overturned Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law, and with it similar laws in roughly one-third of the states. Some of the state laws went beyond black and white, prohibiting marriage between whites and Native…