Pace v. Alabama was a landmark decision upholding southern Jim Crow laws that would stand for more than eighty years. The case involved a Black man, Tony Pace, who had a relationship with a white woman, Mary Cox, in the state of Alabama. Section 4184 of the Alabama legal code disallowed a man and a woman from living together without being married; Cox and Pace actually lived near each other because they could not live together. Section 4189 of the Alabama legal code made it a crime for people of different races to have sexual relations, what at the time was called miscegenation. The Alabama courts convicted the couple on the basis of both statutes, and they were sentenced to two years in prison each. Pace appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court, under the belief that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protected him from undue discrimination due to the color of his skin.