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      • Based on the true story that led the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional Virginia's anti-miscegenation law (in Loving v. Virginia, 1967), paving the way for legal interracial marriages.
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  2. Oct 26, 2016 · But just who were Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed onscreen by Australian actor Joel Edgerton and Ethiopian-born Ruth Negga)? Here are five things to know about the reluctant civil rights ...

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  3. Mildred Delores Loving (née Jeter; July 22, 1939 – May 2, 2008) and Richard Perry Loving (October 29, 1933 – June 29, 1975) were an American married couple who were the plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967).

  4. Jan 28, 2021 · The monumental love story of Richard and Mildred Loving resulted in the landmark Supreme Court case that wiped away the last segregation laws in America.

  5. Oct 27, 2016 · Yes. Nancy Buirski's documentary The Loving Story was released in 2011 and a TV movie titled Mr. and Mrs. Loving aired in 1996. The latter starred Timothy Hutton as Richard and Lela Rochon as Mildred.

  6. Apr 2, 2014 · Mildred Loving, who was of African American and Native American descent, became a reluctant activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s when she and her white husband, Richard Loving,...

  7. Nov 4, 2016 · Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) a 24-year-old white man from Central Point, Virginia, fell in love with Mildred Jeter (Ruth Negga), an 18-year-old woman of mixed heritage that included...

  8. Feb 17, 2017 · Find out how a couple in love brought forward the landmark case, Loving v. Virginia, which forever changed the color of marriage in the United States.