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All anti-miscegenation laws banned marriage between whites and non-white groups, primarily black people, but often also Native Americans and Asian Americans. [5] In many states, anti-miscegenation laws also criminalized cohabitation and sex between whites and non-whites.
An anti-miscegenation law was enacted by the Nazi government in September 1935 as a part of the Nuremberg Laws. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour ('Gesetz zum Schutze des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre'), enacted on 15 September 1935, forbade sexual relations and marriages between Germans classified as so ...
The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...
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Roldan v. Los Angeles County (1933), 129 Cal. App. 267, 18 P.2d 706, was a 1930s court case in California confirming that the state's anti-miscegenation laws at the time did not bar the marriage of a Filipino and a white person. [33] However, the precedent lasted barely a week before the law was specifically amended to illegalize such marriages ...
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Florida reformed its abortion law based on the American Law Institute Model Penal Code. [citation needed] Maryland: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied because of sex." [151] [non-primary source needed] Texas: "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national ...
The Prime Minister said the way police and the criminal justice system handle crimes of violence against women was ‘just not working’.