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Article: Loving Day Recalls a Time When the Union of a Man And a Woman Was Banned
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- The Washington Post
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- June 13, 2006
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The word "miscegenation" is a linguistic artifact, a sort of
postmodern joke, a term most often used with a sense of irony.
But at a backyard barbecue in the District on Sunday afternoon
that was dedicated to the joys and intricacies of interracial love,
sex and marriage, Lydia and Peter Mosher remembered when bans on
interracial relationships were deadly serious. Such laws began in
Maryland in 1661, multiplied across the country and did not end until
a Virginia case in 1967. No one needs a reminder about the fate of
black men who had sex with white women in the Jim Crow era.
Even for others, it wasn't easy: "We keep things as normalized as
possible." This is Peter Mosher talking in a ...
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