Pace v. Alabama

Pace v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 16, 1883 Decided January 29, 1883
Full case name	Pace v. State of Alabama
Citations	106 U.S. 583 (more) 1 S. Ct. 637; 27 L. Ed. 207; 1882 U.S. LEXIS 1584
Case history
Prior	Defendants 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
Majority	Field, 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]}