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The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No. 55 of 1949, was an apartheid-era law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between "whites" and "non-whites". It was among the first pieces of apartheid legislation to be passed following the National Party's rise to power in 1948.
The act repealed section 16 of the Immorality Act, 1957, which prohibited extramarital sex between a white person and a non-white person. [1] It also made other consequential amendments related to the repeal of section 16, and removed the higher penalties for brothel-keeping and procuring when the sex in question was interracial.
[1] Interracial marriages have been formally protected by federal statute through the Respect for Marriage Act since 2022. Historical opposition to interracial marriage was frequently based on religious principles. Many Southern evangelical Christians saw racial segregation, including in marriage, as something divinely instituted from God.
In 2022, Congress codified the Supreme Court's decisions in Loving and Obergefell in federal law by passing the Respect for Marriage Act. This act requires the U.S. federal government and all U.S. states and territories (though not tribes) to recognize the validity of same-sex and interracial civil marriages in the United States. [74]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store The post Interracial marriages to get added protection under new law appeared first ...
Interracial marriage features prominently in the Respect for Marriage Act. Interracial marriage was first legalized through the landmark supreme court case Loving v Virginia in 1967, in which the Warren court established that the laws prohibiting interracial marriage were in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the ...
California has allowed interracial marriage since 1948. Mike and Jeralyn Wirtz recall that by the time they met in 1976, they both had made meaningful friendships with people of other races.
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949 forbade marriages between white people and people of other races. The Immorality Amendment Act, 1950 forbade extramarital sex between white people and people of other races. These laws were repealed by the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985.