40 Years of Marriage

Did you know that interracial marriage has only been legal in the United States (as a whole) for 40 years?

June 12, 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia on June 12, 1967 which struck down the remaining interracial marriage bans in 16 states in the United States, ending race discrimination in marriage.

Click here to read the Loving v. Virginia decision.

See the Freedom to Marry website for details.

It's easy to think that things have always been this way, that today's struggles are based on age-old principles, but the reality is that much of what can be taken for grated as civil rights in this country have only been recognized for a few decades.