{"id":7543,"date":"2010-06-17T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2013-06-13T00:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T00:51:17","slug":"the-law-anti-miscegenation-statutes-repugnant-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7543","title":{"rendered":"The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,839535,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<br \/>\n<\/a>1967-06-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vahistorical.org\/arvfind\/bazile.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Leon Bazile<\/a> looked down at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Loving<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred Jeter Loving<\/a> as they stood before him in 1959 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_County,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline County, Va.<\/a> courtroom. &#8220;Almighty God,&#8221; he intoned, &#8220;created the races white, black, yellow, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malay_race\" target=\"_blank\">Malay<\/a> and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.&#8221; With that, Judge Bazile sentenced the newlywed Lovings to one year in jail. Their crime: Mildred is part Negro, part Indian, and Richard is white.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>, as in 15 other states (the number was once as high as 30), there is a law barring white and colored persons from intermarrying. The Lovings could have avoided the sentence simply by leaving the state, but they eventually decided to fight the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia antimiscegenation law<\/a> &#8220;on the ground that it was repugnant to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/14th_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\">14th Amendment<\/a>.&#8221; In rare unanimity, all nine <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Supreme_Court\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court<\/a> Justices <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_v._Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">agreed last week that it was repugnant indeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,839535,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed Time Magazine 1967-06-23 Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. &#8220;Almighty God,&#8221; he intoned, &#8220;created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. 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