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Article: New Trends in Interracial Marriage
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Stephanie Coontz of the Council on Contemporary Families,
+1-360-556-9223, coontzs@msn.com
CHICAGO, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This year marks the
fortieth anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court case
that declared states could not prohibit interracial marriage. A
measure of how far we have come is that when Senator Barack Obama's
parents married in 1960, their marriage would have been illegal --
and he would have been considered illegitimate -- in half of all the
states in America.
This briefing report from the Council on Contemporary Families
sums up the trends in interracial marriage since that time and
provides a list of experts who ...