Fact: In 1871, Representative Andrew King, D-Missouri, proposed a United States constitutional amendment banning all interracial marriage in every state throughout the country. SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
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1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
“No such laws exist in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies & help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds. SOURCE: #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterracialMarriageBans
#AmericnHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
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Fact: By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/3
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
The primary SOURCE for this post was the article 'Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline' by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
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1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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Fact: In 1871, Representative Andrew King, D-Missouri, proposed a United States constitutional amendment banning all interracial marriage in every state throughout the country. SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
2/2
1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
Fact: By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/3
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
The primary SOURCE for this post was the article 'Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline' by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
2/2
1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
Fact: In 1871, Representative Andrew King, D-Missouri, proposed a United States constitutional amendment banning all interracial marriage in every state throughout the country. SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
2/2
1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
The primary SOURCE for this post was the article 'Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline' by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
Fact: By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/3
“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
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Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
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"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#OTD in #History 1664
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
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"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
The primary SOURCE for this post was the article 'Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline' by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
2/2
1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
Fact: In 1871, Representative Andrew King, D-Missouri, proposed a United States constitutional amendment banning all interracial marriage in every state throughout the country. SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
2/2
1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
Fact: By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/3
Fact: By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/3
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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