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How it affected us?

Supreme Court of the United States

  • Since the law has been changed white and black people are able to be a couple now and do as they please.

Aftermath

The Pace precedent stood for 81 years. It was finally weakened in McLaughlin v. Florida (1964), and eventually overturned by a unanimous court in the Loving vs. Virginia (1967) case.

The Case

Pace vs. Alabama was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional. This ruling was rejected by the Supreme Court in 1964 in McLaughlin v. Florida and in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia.

Miscegenation Propaganda

The Court's Ruling

The Beginning

The Court unanimously upheld the conviction of Pace and Cox, ruling that the law was not discriminatory :

  • Whatever discrimination made in the punishment is directed against the offense and not against the person of any particular color or race. The punishment of each offending person, white or black, is the same.

Tony Pace, a black man, and Mary Cox, a white woman, were residents of the state of Alabama, who had been arrested in 1881 because their sexual relationship violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute.

Anti-miscegenation is a law that enforced racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage and sometimes also sex between members of different races.

Pace Vs. Alabama

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