Background of Miscegenation

I am still waiting for Forbidden fruit from the library to come but I thought I would do some research on the 19th century. Miscegenation is the mixing of different races that is marring, having sexual relation and having children with a partner a different race. This term stared in the Apartheid era; it was enforced in Nazi Germany there is was called “ amalgamation”. In the United States alone there were many laws prohibiting the marriage of whites and blacks. In other states the intermarriage of whites with Native Americans and Asians were also prohibited; this laws were known as Anti-miscegenation laws, this law was enforced in 30 out of the then 48 states from 1913 to 1948. I found it interesting that United States Congress was thinking about proposing an “Anti-Miscegenation Amendment”. When I read this I was like what, how could they even think about creating a law that would stop someone the right to wed whom ever they like? In the case of Loving v. Virginia it stated that the anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. However, in Nazi Germany and South Africa still believed in racial purity and white supremacy. After World War II many white segregationists accused the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King, Jr. of trying to destroy the “white United States” through miscegenation. I found this to be ridicules because the segregationists took it to the head it nothing to do with them. People who were against interracial couples did everything they could to erase the idea of people of different races coming together. By doing this research I learned a new term used in the 19th century and how impossible it was for people. When the book comes in I well be talking about the stories of multiple couples and the obstacles they face to break the laws.