However, prior to 1967, courts consistently upheld statutes that forbid interracial marriages between whites and non-whites.

For historical examples of the legal lengths to which American courts would go to uphold the validity of legislative prohibitions on inter-racial marriage,

If it is a fact that plaintiff is of African descent and the defendant is a full-blood Indian, then their marriage is a nullity. This is so even though the marriage was contracted in another state, the parties being residents of this state.” (citations omitted

The information in this and subsequent paragraphs is based on that given in Applebaum, op. cit., pp. 53-56. 16.

In 1936, after only three months of marriage, Ernestine Baker filed for a divorce from Billy Baker “on the ground of habitual drunkenness and extreme cruelty

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