Historically, the United States is known for their segregation and discrimination of races. For one, the nation is familiar with anti-miscegenation laws that were created to separate individuals from race mixing. These laws limited citizens from marrying outside of their race, and the way of enforcing was jail time and exiling the couple from the state. Virginia charged couples severely with fornication if they were to find cohabitation between the two individuals. Not only this, but Virginia imposed the laws to prevent miscegenation, but for those who disregarded the law, they were faced with barbarous consequences. Fredrick states, “a Caucasian woman engaged to a black slave must be her husband’s slave owner throughout his entire life. And as his master, the woman also had to own her husband’s …show more content…
Nearly 84 years later, the Supreme Court overturned the previous rulings of Pace v. Alabama with the case, Loving v. Virginia. that finalized the legalization of interracial marriage. The case is distinguished for fighting against the laws that prohibited marriage rights for interracial couples. Both Richard and Mildred Loving were robbed of their marriage rights because of Virginia’s laws preventing amalgamation of races. Virginia police officers had intruded into their house, disregarding the 4th amendment that was passed in 1791. Furthermore, both Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested for miscegenation and subjected to the expulsion from Virginia. Virginia, at the time, established anti-miscegenation laws in where racial segregation and discrimination for marriage were present. For one, The Racial Integrity Act of 1924, only showed recognition of two races, which were colored and