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Maryland bans marriage between whites and slaves, ultimately ordering the enslavement of white women who have married black men.
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The Commonwealth of Virginia bans all interracial marriage. Any white person who married a person of color was threatened with exile, ultimately serving as a death sentence.
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Pennsylvania repeals a law set in place in 1725 that banned interracial marriage in an attempt to gradually abolish slavery.
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Massachusetts becomes the second state to repeal laws banning interracial marriages.
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Rep. Andrew King makes the first of three attempts to propose a US constitutional amendment banning marriage between whites and people of color in every state.
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The US Supreme Court unanimously rules in Pace v. Alabama that state-level bans on interracial marriage do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the constitution.
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The second attempt to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states is proposed by Rep. Seaborn Roddenbery.
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Sen. Coleman Blease, a known KKK supporter, makes the third attempt to ban interracial marriage in every state.
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McLaughlin v. Florida rules that laws banning interracial sex violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the US constitution.
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The US Supreme court overturns Pace v Alabama. Loving v Virginia rules that state bans on interracial marriage violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Alabama becomes the last state to officially legalize interracial marriage.
