“Imagine that every state were free to choose whether to allow Black people and white people to marry. Some states would permit such marriages; others probably wouldn’t. The laws would be a mishmash, and interracial couples would suffer, legally consigned to second-class status depending on where they lived.It seems an unthinkable scenario in 2022. That’s because in 1967 the Supreme Court
unanimously ruled that barring interracial marriage, as
16 states still did, violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. ...”
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