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Dont ask me why I looked this up, just a random thought, so Wikipedia it is. Tell me if this makes any sense: Anti-miscegenation laws (also known as miscegenation laws) prohibited whites and non-whites from marrying each other. These state laws always targeted marriage between whites and blacks, and in some states also prohibited marriages between whites and Native Americans or Asians. As one of many examples of such state laws, Utahs marriage law had an anti-miscegenation component that was passed in 1899 and repealed in 1963. It prohibited marriage between a white and anyone considered a Negro (Black American), mulatto (half black), quadroon (one-quarter black), octoroon (one-eighth black), Mongolian (East Asian), or member of the Malay race (a classification used to refer to Filipinos). No restrictions were placed on marriages between people who were not white persons.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:56:21 +0000

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