MIXED RACE MARRIAGES

Mixed Race Marriages



Mixed Race Marriages

Interracial romance was the point of argument in America with the first English settlers established colonies in the seventeenth century. In 1664 Maryland banned interracial marriage in connection with questions about the children of black slaves and white person will be considered a free person or property. In subsequent years, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina brought against miscegenation laws that banned interracial marriage.

In 1691 Virginia outlawed interracial couples and their children are labeled as "disgusting, that mixture and spurious issue." When slavery was lifeless, the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, many southern states instituted what was known as "Black Codes." In addition to stripping the freed slaves of most of their newly acquired rights, these codes have continued to prohibit marriages between whites and blacks. This was based on the fact that Africans and Native Americans, and were inferior races and interbreeding will pollute the white gene pool. When Congress tried to override the "Black Codes" by issuing a series of laws from 1866 to 1875, the Supreme Court declared most of the legislation invalid and affirmed the right of the southern states "to prohibit interracial marriage. Anti-miscegenation laws did not hold everyone from crossing the color line. Before the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, many white slave owners secretly took the black women with whom they are the father of many children.

In addition, not every state has laws banning interracial marriage. Some estimates say that about 70 percent of African-Americans are the descendants of black and white clutch. Renowned African Americans such as WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Martin Luther monarch Jr. and Frederick Douglass are black and white descent. Douglas eventually married a white woman, Helen Pitts, after the death of his first wife. Douglas, One of the most active African-American activists from the era of the Civil War, believes that marriage was the key to the adoption and acceptance of newly freed slaves into American society.

According to Douglas, "The future of the Negro, thus, what it will be absorbed, assimilated, and it will emerge only in the end. In particular, mixed-race. "Not all African-Americans wanted to be absorbed though." We did not ask for assimilation, and we resisted it, "said WEB Du Bois." He was forced on us brute force, ignorance, poverty, degradation and fraud " . Dubois also condemned the hypocrisy of white America when he arrived in interracial marriages. "This is the white race, roaming the world that he left his mark on the bastards and resentment of women, and then raised holy hands and regretted the" race mixture. "At the beginning of an era Civil Rights in 1950, the statutes against mixed marriages were still on the books in sixteen states, mostly in the South and Midwest. In 1958, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a black woman who traveled to Washington, DC, which does not prohibit interracial marriage to be married. When they returned to their homes in Virginia ...