Interracial marriage in US became legal only in 1967

This is a bad post for HN. Wikipedia links are good when a topic hasn't had much or any discussion, and then only if there isn't a good alternative article available. But since race relations in the US are the most-discussed topic of the moment (perhaps in the world? and certainly here), this is the worst-possible use of Wikipedia on HN.

For some reason, this issue about Wikipedia submissions has been coming up a lot lately: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Moreover, you editorialized the title to make it more inflammatory. That's exactly the opposite of what the site guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

This title is somewhat inaccurate as there were a number of states where it was legal before 1967. 1967 is when the Supreme Court decided anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional, forcing all states to allow it.

Yes -- in my lifetime. Amazing to think about. (I was born in '62). And here I am--in 2020 and I'm married to a same-sex partner. This was shocking when I was growing up. In the North where I was you'd see interracial couples but it was very, very rare.

I remember seeing a movie when I was 10 or so called Future Shock (in 1972) that had a scene with a same-sex wedding and the audience gasped! (It was the second feature at the Uniondale Mini Cinema.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUwXenBokU

I remember the family drama and strife (real or fake, who knows, but the topic was chosen for the audience regardless) around interracial marriages being a common feature of daytime talk shows at least as late as the mid- or maybe late-90s.