<P> Interracial marriage is a form of marriage outside a specific social group ( exogamy ) involving spouses who belong to different socially - defined races or racialized ethnicities . In the past , it was outlawed in the United States of America and in South Africa as miscegenation . It became legal in the entire United States in 1967 when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case Loving v. Virginia that race - based restrictions on marriages violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution . </P>
<P> Interracial marriage is a form of marriage outside a specific social group ( exogamy ) involving spouses who belong to different socially - defined races or racialized ethnicities . In the past , it was outlawed in the United States of America and in South Africa as miscegenation . It became legal in the entire United States in 1967 when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case Loving v. Virginia that race - based restrictions on marriages violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution . </P>
when did interracial marriage become legal in all 50 states
when did interracial marriage become legal in all 50 states
1967
1967