Richard and Mildred Loving;Arrest: June 1958Charge: FelonyCrime: Interracial marriageCase: Loving v.
Richard and Mildred Loving;Arrest: June 1958Charge: FelonyCrime: Interracial marriageCase: Loving v. State of Virginia 1967“Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African American and Native American descent, who had been arrested for miscegenation nine years earlier in Virginia. The Lovings were not active in the Civil Rights movement but their tenacious legal battle to justify their marriage changed history when the Supreme Court unanimously declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law—and all race-based marriage bans—unconstitutional. ” -ICP -- source link
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