It was a familiar scene at the U.S. Supreme Court: states argued that allowing certain couples to marry would impose long-term harms upon children. (Wikipedia)
Monday, June 12 — The 1960s was a time of great social change, and one of the landmark advances in freedom afforded all Americans by civil rights was made on this date 50 years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia, which determined that a state law prohibiting interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
In the United States of 1960, there were 157,000 interracial married couples. By 1992, that total had surged to almost 1.2 million. In the 2010 Census, over 9 million residents — almost 3 percent of the population — reported being of two or more races. That was a 32 percent increase in the multirace category from the 2000 Census.
You can find more facts about America’s people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey here.
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