Professor Robin Lenhardt was quoted in the Daily Mail where she discusses the history of anti-miscegenation laws in the United States.
And yet the US has a long history of barring interracial marriage, according to Robin Lenhardt, a law professor at Fordham University.
Anti-miscegenation laws existed in 30 states at one point, she said, which many people saw “as a crucial dividing line between whites and blacks, crucial to the society.
“For that to be removed was a bitter pill for many communities.”