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- Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving wed in 1958. But it was nine years—and a Supreme Court case—before Virginia recognized their marriage.
www.washingtonian.com/2016/11/02/virginia-case-legalized-interracial-marriage-the-loving-story/“We Were Married on the Second Day of June, and the Police ...
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Feb 17, 2017 · It was 2 a.m. on July 11, 1958, and the couple in question, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, had been married for five weeks. “I’m his wife,” Mildred responded.
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).
Jan 28, 2021 · Although the Lovings were legally married in Washington, D.C., the state of Virginia, which the couple made their home in, was one of more than 20 states that made marriage between the races a...
Apr 2, 2014 · Mildred and Richard had been married just a few weeks when, in the early morning hours of July 11, 1958, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies, acting on an anonymous tip that the Lovings were...
Nov 7, 2016 · In 1967, Richard Loving and his wife Mildred successfully fought and defeated Virginia's ban on interracial marriage via a historic Supreme Court ruling.
Oct 19, 2024 · The case arose after Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, traveled from their residences in Central Point, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., to be married on June 2, 1958. Having returned to Central Point, they lived in the home of Mildred’s parents while Richard, a ...
Nov 2, 2016 · Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving wed in 1958. But it was nine years—and a Supreme Court case—before Virginia recognized their marriage. Here, the normally press-shy couple meets reporters in 1967, after the legal fight has ended.
