Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race Marriage and Law--An American History

The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States this book illustrates in vivid detail how states communities and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storytellers detail with a historians analysis Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.