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2000 Alabama Amendment 2, also known as the Alabama Interracial Marriage Amendment, was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama to remove Alabama's ban on interracial marriage. Interracial marriage had already been legalized nationwide 33 years prior in 1967, following Loving v. Virginia, making the vote symbolic. The amendment was ...
Alabama constitution still prohibits interracial marriage, integrated schools; committee to begin revisions. By Caroline Klapp. Updated: May. 27, 2021 at 9:09 PM PDT. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Leaders are taking a big step forward this week in revising the Alabama State Constitution.
All anti-miscegenation laws banned marriage between whites and non-white groups, primarily black people, but often also Native Americans and Asian Americans. [5] In many states, anti-miscegenation laws also criminalized cohabitation and sex between whites and non-whites.
Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that state-level bans on interracial marriage do not violate the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling will hold for more than 80 years.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Alabama since June 26, 2015, in accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. Not all counties immediately complied with the ruling, copying behavior from the civil rights era when they had refused to perform interracial marriages. [1]
Alabama constitution still prohibits interracial marriage, integrated schools; committee to begin revisions. Taking racist language out of the constitution. By Caroline Klapp, WAFF. Updated:...
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history.
