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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In 1958, the Lovings married in Washington, D.C. to evade Virginia's anti-miscegenation law (the Racial Integrity Act). On their return to Virginia, they were arrested in their bedroom for living together as an interracial couple. The judge suspended their sentence on the condition that the Lovings leave Virginia and not return for 25 years.
The overall numbers mask significant gender gaps within some racial groups. Among black Americans, men are much more likely than women to marry someone of a different race. Fully a quarter of black men who got married in 2013 married someone who was not black. Only 12% of black women married outside of their race.
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In contrast, 20.1% of white women married a black man, while just 9.4% married an Asian man. A slightly higher proportion of white women than white men married a Hispanic person (51% versus 46%), and a similar share of each gender married someone in the other group. [34]
Both women married incarcerated men — one serving a life sentence and the other on death row Image credits: Love Within Walls: A Prison Wife Podcast Image credits: MarcelloRabozzi / Pixabay ...
A Jewish white man falls in love with a black girl at a recently desegregated school. 1999 [32] [39] The Secret Laughter of Women: Peter Schwabach: 1999 : Unbowed: Nanci Rossov: Set after the Civil War, a defiant Native American man and a high spirited Black woman fall in love while attending college. 1999
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