In South Africa in June 1985, after decades of apartheid, the ban on marriage between people of different ethnic backgrounds was finally lifted.

When did it become legal for interracial marriages?

1967 However, interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, that decreed all state anti- miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Many states, of course, had chosen to legalize interracial marriage much earlier.