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Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 131, 133, 134, 135 Administration of Native Americans, 134 The Advocate, 118 African American Healthy Marriage Initiative, 134 African Americans: civil rights struggles, 76–78, 80–85, 90–96, 97; as focus of marriage promotion, 12–13; Johnson’s 1965 Howard University speech on racial equality and poor black families, 78–79, 80, 81; Loving v. Virginia and interracial marriage, 4, 13, 73, 90–96, 97, 102, 120, 149, 152, 172n69; and the Moynihan Report, 80–85; Quayle’s speech on breakdown of family structure, 104–5, 118; race-specific Healthy Marriage Initiative, 134–35; urban rioting and racialized violence, 76, 81, 103, 104; Wilson on poverty/ the underclass and decline in marriage rates, 108. See also culture wars of the 1990s; ex-slaves and Reconstruction-era marriage policies Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 107, 111–12. See also welfare policy and welfare reform Alabama antimiscegenation case (1877), 42–44 Alaska Superior Court and same-sex marriage, 137, 143 Alliance for Marriage, 142 American Civil Liberties Union, 92 American Enterprise Institute, 107 American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 29–30 American Law Institute, 102 American Political Development, marriage in, 1–3, 13–19. See also marriage as political institution American Public Human Services Association, 135 Amsterdam News, 83 Anderson, Mark, 130 antimiscegenation statutes: constitutional challenges and the Fourteenth Amendment, 38, 45, 92, 94, 171–72n64; Doc Lonas V. State of Tennessee, 40–42; and federal Reconstruction amendments, 38, 42, 43–44; gender roles and notions of domesticity, 39–40, 43; Green v. State of Alabama, 42–44; Loving v. Virginia rendering unconstitutional, 4, 13, 73, 90–96, 97, 102, 120, 149, 152, 172n69; Reconstruction-era, 23, 36–45, 92, 162n57, 162n63, 162n68; scientific racial and gender discourse, 38, 39–40, 41; Scott v. State of Georgia, 38–39; and “separate but equal” framework, 40, 91 Arkes, Hadley, 117 Atlantic Monthly, 52, 105 Auburn University, 134 Baehr v. Lewin (1993), 115, 176n58 Baker v. Vermont (1999), 137 Barr, Bob, 113, 119 Barton, Paul, 79 Bellah, Robert, 126 Index 198 Index Bennett, William, 106 birth control, 85, 170n41 Black Codes (post–Civil War), 37–38 “black power” movement, 76, 82–83, 95 Blackstone, William, 24, 37, 89 Boat People SOS, 134 Bredbenner, Candice, 66 Bridefare programs (Wisconsin), 110, 132, 179n30 Broderick, Ellen, 79 Brookings Institution, 111 Brown, Michael, 77 Browning, Don, 128 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), 91 Buchanan, Pat, 103 Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 62, 63 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. See Freedmen’s Bureau Bush, George W./Bush administration: and Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI), 123, 129, 133–36; national marriage promotion policy, 113, 122–24, 125, 129–33, 145; and welfare policy/welfare reform, 113, 129–36 Cable Act (1922), 65, 66 California and same-sex marriage debate, 1, 143–44 California Marriage Protection Act (Proposition 8), 143–44 Canady, Charles T., 115 Carmichael, Stokely, 82–83; Black Power, 83 Carter, Robert, 93 Catholic Charities, 134 Center for Marriage and Family at the Institute for American Values, 104 Chauncey, George, 3 Cherlin, Andrew, 124 Chinese exclusion laws, 62–63, 163–64n11, 166n51 Christianity Today, 144 citizenship and civic inclusion (marriage and), 5–7, 10–13, 18–19, 126–27, 151; ex-slaves and Reconstruction-era marriage policies, 23–24, 25–36, 37–38, 44–46, 118–19, 151; groups and civic membership, 11–12; immigration and Progressive Era marriage policies, 49–51, 53–55, 61–67; and marriage debates of early twenty-first century, 124, 126–27, 140; and morality, 29, 43, 48, 51, 53, 63, 64, 114, 115–16, 126–27; obligations/rights, 5–7, 10–13, 23–24, 30, 34–35, 44–46, 51–55, 57, 74–75, 83, 93–94, 96–98, 106–13, 118–19, 124, 129, 140, 145–46; Reconstruction amendments and federal statutes, 23, 31, 38, 42, 43–44, 158n1; samesex marriage and civic disciplinary inclusion, 114, 118–19, 140 Civil Rights Act (1866), 38, 162n60 Civil Rights Act (1964), 76, 77 civil rights struggles of African Americans: “black power” movement, 76, 82–83, 95; civil rights legislation, 76–78, 80; Loving v. Virginia rendering antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional, 4, 13, 73, 90–96, 97, 102, 120, 149, 152, 172n69; and Moynihan Report, 80–85; urban rioting and racialized violence, 76, 81 Civil War: contraband camps, 27–31, 126; postwar Black Codes, 37–38; postwar Freedmen’s Bureau, 5–6, 23, 25–26, 31–35, 44–45; slave unions/marriages begun under...

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