California’s
Anti-Miscegenation Statute
nGroups such as the American Legion, the Native Sons and daughters of the American West, and the California State Federation of Labor called for a new miscegenation statute that would include Filipinos.
nIn 1933, California legislature amended the miscegenation statute to state that all marriages of Caucasians with “negroes, Mongolians, members of the Malay race, or mulattoes are illegal and void” and that no marriage license would be issued for a marriage of “a white person with a negro, Mulatto, Mongolian, or members of the Malay race.”
nBoth bills passed unanimously in the Senate and 66-1 and 63-0 in the Assembly.