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The first recorded interracial marriage in what is today the United States took place in 1565 in New Spain, when Luisa de Ábrego, a free black Hispanic woman from Andalucía, and Miguel Rodriguez, from Segovia, married in St. Augustine, Florida.
A multiracial European family walking in the park. Interracial marriage is a 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 (Latin: 'mixing types').
Opposition to interracial marriage was frequently based on religious principles. The overwhelming majority of white Southern Democrat Christians saw racial segregation, including on matters of marriage, as something that was divinely instituted from God.
Attitudes towards bans on interracial marriage began to change in the 1960s. Civil rights organizations were helping interracial couples who were being penalized for their relationships to take their cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since Pace v. Alabama (1883), the U.S. Supreme Court had declined to make a judgment in such cases.
The interracial couple filed a civil rights lawsuit with the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, claiming their civil rights were violated. The suit named Beth Bardwell, Keith Bardwell's wife, as co-defendant and sought a monetary settlement, including restitution for emotional distress and mental anguish.
A Mississippi wedding venue is facing backlash after a video of one of its employees refusing to host an interracial ceremony went viral last weekend.
Of the 275,000 new interracial marriages in 2010, 43% were white-Hispanic, 14.4% were white-Asian, 11.9% were white-black and the rest were other combinations. [45] However, interracial marriage has become more common over the past decades due to increasing racial diversity, and liberalizing attitudes toward the practice.
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