Interrogation In Virginia

In the early years interracial marriages was illegal in the United States. The biggest problem our country faced with interracial relationships arose during the slavery era. The raping of

Anti-Miscegenation laws embraced racial segregation because it was a crime for different races of people to get married. These laws were initiated in the late 17th century and continued until 1967. All of the anti-miscegenation laws in the United States barred marriages that consisted of individuals who were white and those who were considered “non-white.” So a white male and black woman could not have been married or even in a relationship without it being a crime back then. Some examples of miscegenation laws was when Oklahoma in 1908 had a law on books that barred marriages between Africans and non-Africans, 1920, Louisiana barred marriages between blacks and Native Americans, and in 1935, Maryland prohibited the marriages between Filipinos and blacks. (Pascoe, 2009) Two cases that are relevant to miscegenation are Loving v. Virginia and Perez v. Sharp.

The history in the United States, has created several issues weather it involves, women’s rights, politics, or the wars that Americas have fought in. However, the issue that has caused the most conflict throughout the years in the United States is racial tension. Racial tension was first created in the United States, when the citizens of Europe decided that they no longer wished to do their own labor, and instead they went to Africa and stole and enslaved the individuals of that country. However, after several years of despicable events, the Africans who were enslaved were now free by law. Converting from once being a slave to now wanting to be treated as in equal in the United States was a great challenge. The white citizens of America

Prior to the Jim Crow laws, a patchwork of customs and laws existed or were expanded after the Civil War in an effort to protect the racial privilege of the white citizens. The races even worshiped the same God but in completely separate churches

The hands of other races formed America. The foundation of this country was based upon racial tension and conflict. This strain continued even after slavery had been abolished. People would lash out at other races in order to make them-selves feel better. Phrases like "hate crimes" were suddenly popping up.

It all started with slavery in the United States, which was especially popular in the early 1790s with enslaved African Americans working the new cotton gins. After the Civil War ending and slavery was illegal by the reconstruction amendments, whites did not interact with African Americans. Many states passed laws that enforced segregation. The whites could not interact in public places bylaw. These laws of segregation were called Jim Crow laws. It took until the 1890s before they were confronted in court. When the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal 50 years later, it took many court cases to show that it violated the Declaration of Independence.

Virginia case successfully outlawed legislation that prohibited members of different races to wed in holy matrimony, despite the fact that society’s view on interracial marriages remained intractable. In 1924, legislation was passed in Virginia that was designed to limit mixed-race relationships, called the Racial Integrity Act. Not only did it try to prevent intermixing, but it also produced two strict racial categories of “colored” and “white” that divided society even more. Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, fought to repeal that act in 1967 when they were both arrested for getting married, despite Virginia’s ban on marriages between blacks and whites. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the couple knew that they could not legally marry in their state of Virginia, so they went to Washington, D.C, and after “returning to their home state…the couple was charged with unlawful cohabitation and jailed” (ACLU). During the state court trial, the presiding judge, Leon Bazile found the couple to be guilty, justifying his ruling saying “[the] Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents...the fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.” After this ruling, Mildred felt compelled to write a letter to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, asking for assistance fighting this state ruling. Soon, they were referred to the ACLU

In Virginia it was a state law made for a white person marrying a black person or black person marry white person, if you break this law you're going to jail. Constitutionality statutes called into questioning. Restricting to marry each other basis on race central meaning the Equal Protection Clause. Loving V. Virginia, an interracial couple 23-year-old white construction worker, name Richard Loving and 17 year old black girl Mildred Jeter, they're childhood couple. This wouldn't make a difference. They were against "Virginia's miscegenation Law" eject from marrying whites and blacks. Loving and Mildred went to Washington, D.C. to be wed coming to their hometown in Virginia in 1958, they were charged with cohabitation unlawful were sent to

Race has been one of the most outstanding situations in the United States all the way from the 1500s up until now. The concept of race has been socially constructed in a way that is broad and difficult to understand. Social construction can be defined as the set of rules are determined by society’s urges and trends. The rules created by society play a huge role in racialization, as the U.S. creates laws to separate the English or whites from the nonwhites. Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans were all racialized and victimized due to various reasons. Both the Europeans and Indigenous People were treated differently than African American slaves since they had slightly more freedom and rights, but in many

Introduction: Race has always been a major topic in American history, and it continues to be today. People are constantly fighting about race, but why? Why and how did race become such a big part of the United States of America’s political, economic, and social culture? And why is does it cause so much sectional division within the United States? Race has been such a controversial and major topic that, in order to end racial problems, a war had to be fought, court cases had to be won, and laws had to be passed banning it. The topic can be traced back to beginning of America’s history as the colonies, and can be followed through past the Civil War.

In the late 1870’s the Jim Crow law was established, this law stated that African Americans and Whites were “separate but equal.” With this being put in place African Americans and Whites did not go to the same schools or eat at the same restaurants and everything was separated. The South wanted to keep control over the blacks. Although this law only lasted until the early 1960’s it caused a lot of fights and protests from African Americans.

In 1958, Richard Loving (white) and Mildred Jeter (black) were married. Their union was illegal in the state of Virginia, where they lived and they were arrested in the middle of the night for “unlawful cohabitation,” (Bates 2015). To avoid jail time, the couple made the choice to leave their home. Doing so allowed them to fight back against the unjust actions taken against them and after many years, on June 12, 1967, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could no longer deny marriage rights to people based on race and “established marriage as a constitutional right” (Latane2007).

Race and racism in United States of America have been the pre-dominant social issues since the American colonies were being originated. When racism began, it was initially due to religious reasons but later it became an issue concerning economic and political issues. The American society completely denied to accept that everyone were equal under law and it became difficult to accept the lower social class (especially the slaves) for what they were and started discriminating their freedom by showing racism.

By the year of 1958, approximately 16 states prohibited interracial marriages or implemented anti- miscegenation laws, this was until a particular love story changed everything. This love story was better known as Loving v. Virginia. An African American woman by the name of Mildred and a Caucasian man named Richard Loving traveled to Washington D.C. to get married because it was legal there. Upon arriving back to their home, they were arrested and banished for 25 years for violating Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act (Loving). The Lovings decided to flee from Virginia to avoid being

The main issues of race in America were created when they were legally forced to be turned upside down. Within ten years blacks went from being an owned livestock to equals with their former masters and paid laborers with the freedom to do anything they could ever imagine. Not only was this impactful on the lives of these former slaves, it was also very unsettling for their former masters whose wealth was literally walking away freely leaving them with large tracts of land and no way to force their workers to stay.