Intermarriage Laws
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Re “L.A. County’s Answer for Racial Tensions: Intermarriage,” Opinion, May 5: David Hayes-Bautista and Gregory Rodriguez err when they write that “Los Angeles has always been quite tolerant” in the matter of intermarriage. California enacted its first anti-miscegenation law, prohibiting Negro-white marriage in 1850, followed by prohibitions against Chinese-white in 1880, Japanese-white in 1905 and Filipino-white in 1933. The laws were ruled unconstitutional in California in 1948.
WILLIAM HOHRI
Lomita
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