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Article: A cultural taboo fades: Ruling altered mind-set on interracial marriage.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2007
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Byline: Kayce T. Ataiyero and Bonnie Miller Rubin
Mar. 11--When Mary Hughes, a white woman from Minnesota, married her husband Millard, a black man from Houston, she knew they would have to make compromises to navigate a society still largely segregated in 1965. A simple road trip to an Ohio wedding became a delicate dance to avoid stopping in Indiana, a state that banned such unions. Today, the Homewood couple have traveled all over the country, a freedom afforded to them by a landmark Supreme Court case that 40 years ago this summer repealed state bans on interracial marriages. Suddenly, those trips got a whole lot safer. "I read about [the case] in Time ...