This document summarizes the history of segregation and regulation of interracial relationships in America from slavery through modern times. It discusses how slavery led to racial prejudice, and how later laws prohibited interracial marriage and relationships to enforce white supremacy and the idea of racial purity. Important court cases such as Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, and Palmore v. Sidoti are summarized as overturning segregation and anti-miscegenation laws. The document concludes that growing acceptance of interracial relationships is due to factors like education, age, region, and exposure to interracial friendships, and that the judiciary has played a key role

1. From Segregation to the
Regulation of Intimate
Interracial Relationships in a
White Supremacist Society
Deja Thompson
Spring 2015
ENG 201

2. SLAVERY
is the root of racial prejudice in America
American Anthropological Association. “Resisting Slavery.” (2007) Web. 14 May 2015. Retrieved at
http://www.understandingrace.org/history/society/resisting_slavery.html.

3. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
+ Cheap Labor
+ Low
Maintenance
+ Lifetime
Service
+ Slaves Could
Be Bred
“The Abolition Project.” (2009) Web. 12 May 2015. Retrieved at http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_43.html.

4. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
“Separate but Equal”
Whites ONLY Coloreds ONLY Brown v. Board of Education
(1954)
“Separate but Equal is
inherently UNEQUAL!!!!”
Curiae, Amicus. “Building A Bridge: The AFT and Brown v Board of
Education” New York Public Library. Web. 14 May 2015. Retrieved at
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ex/Brown/brown4.html.

5. White Purity and White
Supremacy
Whites associated interracial intimacy with the “American Negro
Problem”. They used the belief of racial purity to fight interracial
marriage.
White women represented racial purity in America.

6. Dubler, Ariela R. “From McLaughlin v. Florida to Lawrence v. Texas: Sexual Freedom and the Road
to Marriage.” Columbia Law Review 106.1165 (2006): 1165-1185. JSTOR. Web. 15 April 2015.

7. The Story of Emmett Till (1941-1955)
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8. Anderson, Devery. “Widow of Emmett Till Killer dies quietly, notoriously.” USA Today (2014) Web. 14 May 2015.
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9. September 2, 1955
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10. J. W. Milan and Roy Bryant

11. From segregation to the regulation of
intimate interracial relationships.
Miscegenation laws prohibited sexual relations,
cohabitation, procreation, and marriage
between different races. In the United States,
the laws specifically only banned relations
between black and white people.

12. McLaughlin v. Florida
(1964)

13. 1967

14. Young, Anita N. “Moments in History: Loving v. Virginia” (2014) Web. 14 May 2015. Retrieved at
https://anitanyoung.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/moments-in-history-loving-v-virginia/.

15. Gregory, John D., and Grossman, Joanna L. “The Legacy of Loving”. Howard
Law Journal 51.15 (2007): 15-24. HeinOnline. Web. 15 April 2015.

16. Palmore v. Sidoti
(1984)
Jonas, Lisa, and Silverberg, Marshall. “Race, Custody and The Constitution: Palmore v. Sidoti.” Howard Law Journal 27
(1984): 1549-1569. HeinOnline. Web. 15 April 2015.

17. • In this case, no statutory
purpose could be identified so
the Supreme Court of the United
States found it unconstitutional.
Race cannot be a determinant of
parental fitness. Discrimination
of racial association and
affiliation is still racial
discrimination.

18. Acceptance
Education
Sex
Age
Region
Amount of interracial
friendships****
PROGRESS IS KEY !
The Judiciary is a key player in the
growing acceptance of black
culture and interracial
relationships.
Jacobson, Cardell K., and Johnson, Bryan R. “Interracial Friendship and African American Attitudes about
Interracial Marriage.” Journal of Black Studies 36.4 (March 2006): 570-584. Academic Search Complete. 15 April 2015.

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milam/5873235/.
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May 2015. Retrieved at http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ex/Brown/brown4.html.
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