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2000 Alabama Amendment 2, also known as the Alabama Interracial Marriage Amendment, was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama to remove Alabama's ban on interracial marriage. Interracial marriage had already been legalized nationwide 33 years prior in 1967, following Loving v. Virginia, making the vote symbolic. The amendment was ...
In May 2019, the Alabama Legislature passed a bill replacing the option that counties issue marriage licenses and perform marriage ceremonies with the requirement of counties to record marriage certificates. Subsequently, all counties complied and announced on August 29, 2019 that they would record marriage certificates for interracial and same ...
Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868.
That fraught moment occurred even though any legal uncertainty about the validity of interracial marriage had ended a decade earlier — in 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws ...
Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., suggested Tuesday that the legality of interracial marriage was best left for states to decide, then later said he "misunderstood" a series of questions about laws banning ...
On August 29, 2019, all Alabama counties began recording marriage certificates for all couples (including interracial and same-sex couples). Previously, Alabama had banned the licensing of same-sex marriages and the recognition of such marriages from other jurisdictions by executive order in 1996, by statute in 1998, and by constitutional ...
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Alabama's previous Constitution was established with the explicit purpose of establishing white supremacy in the state. [7] There had been three citizen efforts to strike down the racist and outdated language from the Constitution: 2000 Alabama Amendment 2, which aimed to remove a ban on interracial marriage. It was approved with almost 60% of ...