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On this day in 1943, California enacted a statute requiring all marriage licenses to indicate each party’s race so that “no license may be issued authorizing the marriage of a white person with a Negro, mulatto, Mongolian, or member of the Malay race.”
May 5, 1943 | To Prevent Interracial Marriage, CA Requires Marriage Licenses Indicate Race
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May 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1943, California enacted a statute requiring all marriage licenses to indicate each party’s race so that “no license may be issued authorizing the marriage of a white person with a Negro, mulatto, Mongolian, or member of the Malay race.”
May 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM