Constitutional Law,
California Supreme Court
Apr. 28, 2021
Overturning California’s bar on interracial marriages
In 1948, the California Supreme Court became the first state in the nation to rule that such laws violate equal protection rights.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
California historians often see World War II as a pivot. The war industrialized the state's economy and paved the way for a population surge and suburbanization.
The war also changed California's legal culture. A critical example was the California Supreme Court's 1948 decision in Perez v. Sharp, 32 Cal. 2d 711. There, the court struck down California's so-called anti-miscege...
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