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Miscegenation
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Mixture of races. A term formerly applied to marriage between persons of different races. Statutes prohibiting marriage between persons of different races have been held to be invalid as contrary to the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
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Therefore, at a time when "miscegenation" was still illegal in several states and when whites defended segregation as a guard against racial mixing, "many blacks who supported the cause of integration felt compelled to condemn barriers on interracial marriage" (95).
Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Crowley, Jenette Wood / Journal of Social History
Williams is Clarence Thomas, the only black judge on the court, who voted with the majority, saying that, “In reality, it is far from apparent that coerced racial mixing has any educational benefits, much less that integration is necessary to black achievement.
Supreme Court Slinks Into Summer Vacation by Nicholas von Hoffman / The New York Observer
But, Kmiec said: ``If an inmate in a county jail can amass the facts to show there is little or no racial mixing, it seems to me he would have the beginning of a cause of action that is certainly not ruled off-limits by (Wednesday's) decision.
COUNTY JAILS OK FOR NOW LOCAL POLICIES ARE DEFENDED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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