Question:
Do you recognize this map?
answer after the break...
Answer:
It's a map of the legal status of
interracial marriage in 1951.
The image comes from an interactive map at the website for Loving Day, which was highlighted on the page C01 of today's Washington Post:
Monday was, by city proclamation, Loving Day in the nation's capital, recognizing the 39th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision that overturned miscegenation laws in Virginia and 15 other states, all in the South. It was the end of the last piece of state-sanctioned segregation.
That decision has, in the ensuing years, changed the way the nation looks -- the percentage of interracial marriages has increased fivefold from 1970 to 2000, according the U.S. Census, from 1 percent of all marriages to more than 5 percent. The number of children living in interracial families has quadrupled in that time period, going from 900,000 to more than 3 million, and the Census Bureau predicts that such interracial unions will continue to increase.
District-born Ken Tanabe, a 28-year-old product of that interracial boom, is laboring mightily to turn June 12 into a national Loving Day -- a grass-roots observation of the court case and the nation's growing mixed-race heritage.
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See also:
"Married 19 years this August. Activist judges to blame."
Renee in Ohio, 6/3/2006
See also:
TealVeal's tagline
See also:
Utah Code (my home state)
1943
40-1-2. Marriages Prohibited and Void.
The following marriages are prohibited and declared void:
(5) between a negro and a white person.
2006
40-1-2. Marriages Prohibited and Void.
The following marriages are prohibited and declared void:
(5) between persons of the same sex.
See also:
Mildred Loving, from 1992
"Since the older generation is dying, the younger ones ... realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry."
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