Maryland was the first of the British colonies to forbid interracial marriage. That was in 1664. Interracial marriage came to be called miscegenation (a particularly ugly sounding word) and was still illegal in Maryland until 1967. Two University of Maryland SDS members were among the first wave of interracial couples to marry when the "miscegnation" laws were finally overturned. One of them was the first Black woman to live in a UM women's dorm.