Pace v. Alabama

Pace v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 16, 1883
Decided January 29, 1883
Full case namePace v. State of Alabama
Citations106 U.S. 583 (more)
1 S. Ct. 637; 27 L. Ed. 207; 1882 U.S. LEXIS 1584
Case history
PriorDefendants convicted, 5 Circuit Court, 1881; sentenced each to two years in the state penitentiary; affirmed, Alabama Supreme Court (69 Ala 231, 233 (1882))
Holding
Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional. Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Morrison Waite
Associate Justices
Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field
Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan
William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews
Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinion
MajorityField, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S Const. amend XIV; Ala. code 4184, 4189
Overruled by
McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964)
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)

Pace v. Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional.[1] This ruling was rejected by the Supreme Court in 1964 in McLaughlin v. Florida and in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. Pace v. Alabama is one of the oldest court cases in America pertaining to interracial sex.[2][1][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Pace v. Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883). Public domain This article incorporates public domain material from this U.S government document.
  2. ^ Novkov, Julie Lavonne (2008). Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865–1954. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06885-2.
  3. ^ Sollors, Werner (2000). Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512857-5.
  4. ^ Wallenstein, Peter (December 1994). "Race, Marriage, and the Law of Freedom: Alabama and Virginia 1860s–1960 – Freedom: Personal Liberty and Private Law". Chicago-Kent Law Review. 70 (2).
  5. ^ Wallenstein, Peter (December 1998). "Race, Marriage, and the Supreme Court from Pace v. Alabama (1883) to Loving v. Virginia (1967)". Journal of Supreme Court History. 23 (2): 65–86. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5818.1998.tb00138.x. S2CID 144700559.
  6. ^ "Validity of State Statute Forbidding Intermarriage of Races". The Albany Law Journal. 27 (11): 215–216. March 17, 1883. ProQuest 124846536.