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Article: Interracial marriage: a cultural taboo fades
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- March 17, 2007
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CHICAGO - 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, Ill., 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that 40 years ago this summer repealed state bans on interracial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 magazine and I thought OK, the
United States is finally getting it," Hughes ...