“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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September 20, 2026 at 9:59 AM
“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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November 21, 2024 at 11:19 PM
SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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#OTD in #History 1664
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
1/4
September 20, 2026 at 9:59 AM
#OTD in #History 1664
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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September 20, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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January 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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1664: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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November 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM
1664: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
1/4
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony. SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericanHistory
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#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericanHistory
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November 24, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericanHistory
2/2
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericanHistory
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Under the law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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November 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Under the law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Fact: By Nov 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the SCOTUS's 1967 ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
Ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#InterracialMarriageBans
Ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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December 4, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Fact: By Nov 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades, thanks to the SCOTUS's 1967 ruling. But the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban.
#InterracialMarriageBans
Ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#InterracialMarriageBans
Ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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1912: 2nd of 3 Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
November 21, 2024 at 11:19 PM
1912: 2nd of 3 Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
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1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
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Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
1/2
November 18, 2024 at 10:36 AM
1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
1/2
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
1/2
Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
3/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
3/4
November 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Fact: In 1871, Representative Andrew King, D-Missouri, proposed a United States constitutional amendment banning all interracial marriage in every state throughout the country. SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
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#InterracialMarriageBans
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November 18, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Fact: In 1871, Representative Andrew King, D-Missouri, proposed a United States constitutional amendment banning all interracial marriage in every state throughout the country. SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
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#InterracialMarriageBans
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“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
4/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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November 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM
“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
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#InterRacialMarriageBans
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Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
May 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fact: Like its predecessors, this third attempt to pass a constitutional ban fails. #LoveWins SOURCE: Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline by Tom Head for ThoughtCo.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/2
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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1664: First Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
1/4
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
1/4
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
1664: First Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
1/4
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
1/4
1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
August 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
1871: First of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
Why were there three attempts? Same reason racists in the south won't admit the #CivilWar is over and they lost: The myth of #WhiteSupremacy.
#InterracialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/2
"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
January 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
1912: Second of Three Attempts to Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Interracial Marriage
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
Fact: Representative Seaborn Roddenbery, D-Ga., makes a 2nd attempt to revise the Constitution to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
#AmericnHistory
1/2
“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
4/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
4/4
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“No such laws existed in England at the time. They are unique to North American colonies and help create a racial caste system that strictly forbids interracial relationships of all kinds.” SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
4/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
4/4
Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
3/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
3/4
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Facts: These laws prohibited “Negro, Mulatto & Indian men from marrying or ‘accompanying’ white women. Requiring white women to only birth white kids, the law preserved white men’s exclusive sexual access to white women, as well as racial purity.”
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
3/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy
3/4
"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
September 20, 2026 at 9:55 AM
"Under the Anti-Miscegenation law [white women] who had [mulatto kids were] fined & bound out to servitude if she couldn't pay; her kid was also bound out.” SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/4
#InterRacialMarriageBans
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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The primary SOURCE for this post was the article 'Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline' by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
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#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
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How Interracial Marriage Laws Have Changed Since the 1600s
A history of interracial marriage and miscegenation laws both passed and struck down in the United States, from the 1600s to present day.
www.thoughtco.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The primary SOURCE for this post was the article 'Interracial Marriage Laws History and Timeline' by Tom Head for ThoughtCo
#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
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#InterracialMarriageBans
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
ugly #AmericnHistory
www.thoughtco.com/interracial-...
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#OTD in #History 1664
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/4
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/4
September 20, 2026 at 9:55 AM
#OTD in #History 1664
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/4
Sept 20: 1st Anti-Miscegenation Law Passed in Maryland
Context: The “Act prohibited interracial marriage, banished interracial couples from the colony." SOURCE: Digital Georgetown, of Georgetown University Library
#InterRacialMarriageBans
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
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