![An inflammatory pamphlet from 1865 discussing the neologism 'miscegenation.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/what%20miscegenation%20is%21.jpg?itok=PFmxGIeC)
What Miscegenation Is!
![Illustrator Thomas Nast reversed the typical accusations laid against Republicans with this drawing showing Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase performing a wedding ceremony for an interracial couple.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Would%20you%20Market%20your%20daughter%20to%20a_0.jpg?itok=2zcVUcPj)
“Would You Market Your Daughter to a...”
![The second in the series of E.W. Clay’s 1839 lithographs on the topic, 'Practical Amalgamation (An Amalgamation Waltz).'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/amalgamation%20waltz.jpg?itok=mYceUheL)
“Practical Amalgamation (An Amalgamation Waltz)”
![Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and Swedish-born actress May Britt.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Sammy%20Davis%20jr.jpg?itok=aRDGSlbg)
Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt
![Richard and Mildred Loving.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/The%20Lovings.jpg?itok=EErDyldr)
The Lovings
![A chart depicting American approval and disapproval of interracial marriage.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Approval%3ADisapproval%20of%20interracial%20marriage.png?itok=3B5gYEZf)
Approval/Disapproval of Interracial Marriage
![John Gadsby Chapman’s 1840 painting depicts Pocahontas’s baptism and rechristening.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Baptism%20of%20Pocahontas.jpg?itok=pUP2bWFO)
Baptism of Pocahontas
![This abolitionist drawing from the 1850s suggests the plight of the enslaved children of white masters.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Beauties%20of%20the%20extension%20of%20the%20area%20of%20slavery.jpg?itok=lF4KDuSe)
The Beauties of the Extension of the Area of Slavery
![A mob burned Pennsylvania Hall in 1838.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Destruction%20by%20fire%20of%20Pennsylvanai%20Hall.jpg?itok=wuAsPXbP)
Destruction by Fire of Pennsylvania Hall
![Abolitionist and publisher William Lloyd Garrison.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/William%20Lloyd%20Garrison.jpg?itok=gdafRI_Q)
William Lloyd Garrison
![Abolitionist and writer David Walker.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/David%20Walker.jpg?itok=eH99n1gZ)
David Walker
![The final image of E.W. Clay’s 1839 series of lithographs on the topic, 'Practical Amalgamation (The Fruits of Amalgamation).'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Fruits%20of%20Amalagamation.jpg?itok=DXU-xYdw)
“Practical Amalgamation (The Fruits of Amalgamation)”
![An 1864 political cartoon depicting a ludicrous version of the results of racial equality.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Miscegenation%20or%20the%20millennium%20of%20abolitionism.jpg?itok=nR9PohWk)
Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism
![An 1864 anti-Republican satire.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/the%20miscegenation%20ball.jpg?itok=BAlY1ATi)
The Miscegenation Ball
![A rally against integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1959.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Race%20mixing%20is%20communism.jpg?itok=fY8lCX6z)
Race Mixing Is Communism
![A mob hung, shot, and burned William Brown in Omaha, Nebraska in 1919.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/William%20Brown%20Lynching.jpg?itok=3gpTWc4t)
William Brown Lynching
![Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/EmmettTillBefore_%282534273093%29.jpg?itok=KpS1SAu0)
Emmett Till
![A Ku Klux Klan flyer published in 1972.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/racial%20purity%20is%20ameria%27s%20security.jpg?itok=Btqam3_b)
Racial Purity is America’s Security
![Sheet music from 1897 mocking African Americans and Chinese Americans.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/the%20wedding%20of%20the%20chinee%20and%20the%20coon.jpg?itok=iypRJ77E)
“The Wedding of the Chinee and the Coon”
![World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Johnson and Etta Terry Duryea.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Jack%20Johnson.jpg?itok=tcxOiFDN)
Jack Johnson and Etta Terry Duryea
![A Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, garnered national attention and arrest in 2015 after her refusal to issue marriage licenses.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Kim%20Davis%20Rejecting%20David%20Ermold%20Request.jpg?itok=lQFmJilb)
Kim Davis Rejecting David Ermold’s Request
![Secretary of State Dean Rusk with President Lyndon Johnson in 1968.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Dean%20Rusk%20and%20Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg?itok=09hhxucX)
Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson
![A chart depicting falling American support for interracial marriage prohibitions.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Favor%20Law%20Against%20interracial%20marriage.png?itok=R9ZPFGc3)
Favor Law Against Interracial Marriage
![A 2013 Cheerios commercial.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Cheerios%20Commercial.png?itok=CRiBjH0h)
Cheerios Commercial