Fact: By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans

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Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans

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Under the law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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#OTD in #History 1664

Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans

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“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy

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Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy

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"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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#OTD in #History 1664

Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy

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