In a message dated 11/21/2004 4:08:23 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, OmahaMom@aol.com writes: By the way, does anybody know when Nebraska law started to allow African-American marriages? Early ones did not. I asked at the Douglas County Historical Society and at the Douglas County Court House and they didn't know. Here's the answer I found online. At the time of the 1967 Loving decision, sixteen Southern states prohibited marriage across the color line. Surprisingly, other states had only recently removed the ban: South Dakota in 1957, Nevada in 1958, California in 1959, Arizona in 1960, Nebraska in 1963, Indiana in 1965, and Maryland in 1967. It seems clear that although white America, after enormous pressure, was willing to go along with the desegregation of public schools, transportation, and the voting booth, tolerance for racial integration did not extend to personal relationships.