Interracial marriage

Marriage between individuals of different racial/ethnic backgrounds An example of a married interracial couple. Mildred and Richard Loving, 1967 Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in certain U.S. states, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation (Latin: 'mixing types') — a term which first appeared in Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, a hoax anti-abolitionist pamphlet published in 1864. In 1960, interracial marriage was forbidden by law in 31 U.S. states. Legality Interracial marriage has been internationally protected under the UN's "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" which has granted the right to marriage "without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion", since it was approved in 1948. Since its enactment, it has been accepted by nearly every nation on the globe. Despite this, interracial marriage was not legalized in all U.S. states until Loving v. Virginia in 1967 which legalized interracial marriage in all fifty states. In addition, the UDHR is not legall