TIL: interracial marriages in America

[timelets]

Yesterday I learned that marriages between blacks and whites were illegal in 17 US states until 1967.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States

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[juan_gandhi]

Dixon-Mason...

[tijd]

At Bob Jones University (BJU), even after it was forced to admit black students, interracial dating was prohibited till 2000. A clash between BJU and IRS about its tax-exempt status in 1970s motivated the mass exodus of evangelicals in 1980 from Carter to Reagan and created the Christian-conservative coalition that eventually led us to Trump.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University_v._United_States

it is certainly true that evangelicals, having helped propel Carter to the White House four years earlier, turned dramatically against him, their fellow evangelical, during the course of his presidency. And the catalyst for their political activism was not, as often claimed, opposition to abortion. Although abortion had emerged as a rallying cry by 1980, the real roots of the religious right lie not the defense of a fetus but in the defense of racial segregation.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133