1.   During Reconstruction, however, state after state passed laws barring interracial unions.

2.   However, the interracial union caused stirrings in Macon.

3.   In the past, Besherov said, interracial unions tended to occur later in life and were likely to be a second, third or later marriages.

4.   Precisely as white racists feared, desegregation encouraged interracial unions.

5.   With interracial unions prohibited, her parents never lived together.