Dees v. Metts

Prevention of race amalgamation, safeguarding the racial integrity of white peoples and the racial integrity of negro peoples, is the fixed public policy of Alabama.

It is written into our Constitution in these words: “The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro.” Article IV, § 102, Constitution of 1901.

It finds legislative expression in our miscegenation statute, which reads: “If any white person and any negro, or the descendant any negro intermarry, or live in ■adultery or fornication with each…