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2. Interracial marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868.

3. Rights and responsibilities of marriages in the United States

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   The first legally-recognized same-sex marriage occurred in Minneapolis, [3] Minnesota, in 1971. [4] On June 26, 2015, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court overturned Baker v. Nelson and ruled that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to all citizens, and thus legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

4. Same-sex marriage in Florida - Wikipedia

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   Florida was the 35th U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. Florida passed a statute banning same-sex marriage in 1977 and added a prohibition on the recognition of marriages from other jurisdictions in 1997.

5. Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Florida state law which prohibited cohabitation between whites and non-whites was unconstitutional and based solely on a policy of racial discrimination. However, the court did not rule on Florida's ban on marriage between whites and non-whites, despite the appeal of the plaintiffs to do so and the ...

6. Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States

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   The Citizen Potawatomi Nation bans same-sex marriage, and its law code requires applicant spouses to be of opposite sex: "Marriage in the Citizen Potawatomi Nation shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman" (Tribal Code §13-1-101(D)) and "Any unmarried person of the age of eighteen (18) years or older is capable of contracting ...

7. Anti-miscegenation laws - Wikipedia

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   [6] In 1967 the law banning interracial marriage was ruled unconstitutional (via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868) by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. [3] Many states refused to adapt their laws to this ruling with Alabama in 2000 being the last US state to remove anti-miscegenation language from the state constitution. [7]