Interracial marriage in the United States - Wikipedia
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.
Mixed marriage - Wikipedia
Mixed marriage may refer to: Intermarriage Endogamy, the act of marrying inside of one's own specific group; Exogamy, the act of marrying outside of one's own specific group Interracial marriage, between people of different races Miscegenation, a …
Interracial marriage - Wikipedia
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').
Loving Day: How interracial marriage became legal in the U.S. - NPR
Jun 12, 2021 · "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage — and legalized interracial marriage in every...
Race, Ethnicity and Marriage in the United States - Census.gov
Oct 24, 2024 · There are county-level maps for specific interracial/interethnic married-couple combinations, such as couples in which one spouse is non-Hispanic white alone and one spouse is Hispanic.
Key facts about race and marriage in the U.S. - Pew Research Center
Jun 12, 2017 · Intermarriage has increased steadily since the 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling. Here are more key findings about interracial and interethnic marriage and families.
‘We Are Not Unusual Anymore’: 50 Years of Mixed-Race Marriage …
Jun 11, 2017 · When they married in Oakland in 1950, mixed-race marriage had just become legal in California, the result of a lawsuit that reached the State Supreme Court. They are among the oldest living...
Interracial marriages now more common, but not without …
Jun 13, 2021 · According to the Pew Research Center, at least 19 percent of new marriages in the U.S. now involve spouses from different ethnic or racial groups – up from 11% in 2000. And the General Social...
The Faces of Intermarriage, 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia
Jul 6, 2017 · Today, according to the Pew Research Center, one in six newlyweds in the United States is involved in a mixed marriage. That is a fivefold increase from 1967, when the Supreme Court issued a...
1. Trends and patterns in intermarriage | Pew Research Center
May 18, 2017 · In 1967, when miscegenation laws were overturned in the United States, 3% of all newlyweds were married to someone of a different race or ethnicity. Since then, intermarriage rates have steadily climbed. By 1980, the share of intermarried newlyweds had about doubled to 7%. And by 2015 the number had risen to 17%. 4.