Loving Day Recalls a Time When the Union of a Man And a Woman Was Banned
By Neely Tucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 13, 2006; Page C01
The word "miscegenation" is a linguistic artifact, a sort of postmodern joke, a term most often used with a sense of irony.
But at a backyard barbecue in the District on Sunday afternoon that was dedicated to the joys and intricacies of interracial love, sex and marriage, Lydia and Peter Mosher remembered when bans on interracial relationships were deadly serious. Such laws began in Maryland in 1661, multiplied across the country and did not end until a Virginia case in 1967. No one needs a reminder about the fate of black men who had sex with white women in the Jim Crow era.
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