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- The ACLU filed a motion on the Lovings' behalf to vacate the judgment and set aside the sentence, on the grounds that the statutes violated the Fourteenth Amendment. This began a series of lawsuits and the case ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court.
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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.
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).
- The Marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving
- The Couple’S Life in Washington, D.C.
- Inside The Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court Case
- Life For Richard and Mildred Loving After The Ruling
Richard Loving metMildred Jeter when they were still children. The Jeters were long-time family friends of the Lovings who lived next door to each other. And while the Lovings were white and the Jeters were of Black and Native American descent, their friendship didn’t raise any eyebrows in the integrated Caroline County, Virginia. Racial segregatio...
Richard and Mildred Loving settled in Washington, D.C., and soon, they became a family of five. Under the terms of their sentence, Richard and Mildred could not travel to Virginia together, but they were allowed to visit individually. Mildred went home to give birth to two of her children. From exile, the Lovings watched the world change around the...
When the Supreme Court heard arguments in Loving v. Virginia, Richard and Mildred Loving stayed in Virginia with their children. The commonwealth argued that the Virginia law banning interracial marriage was a necessary means of protecting people from the “sociological [and] psychological evils” of marriage between races. Before the court, the Assi...
As the Supreme Court debated her case, Mildred Loving said, “It’s the principle, it’s the law. I don’t think it’s right. If we do win, we will be helping a lot of people. I know we have some enemies, but we have some friends too, so it really don’t make any difference about my enemies.” Loving v. Virginiaoverturned interracial marriage laws in 16 s...
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.
Nov 2, 2016 · On November 4, almost 50 years after the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision that the Lovings’ marriage was valid—and that marriage is a universal right—Hollywood is set to release Loving, already on Oscar lists.
Nov 3, 2016 · 2 minute read. T he headline in the March 18, 1966, issue of LIFE magazine described it simply as “The Crime of Being Married.”. Under those words, two photos: Mildred Loving, then 26, eyes ...
Feb 9, 2012 · The Lovings left to live in Washington, but were arrested again five years later for traveling together, when they returned to Virginia to visit relatives. After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the couple wrote to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for help.
