Tag: Mildred Jeeter Loving

  • Yet, in recounting the events which led up to the couple’s triumphant victory of love over hate, the storyline in these accounts follows the popular narrative of the Loving story. But there is more to this case than many have supposed. This article highlights a few unknown facts and debunks some myths about this historic…

  • On today’s show, we get the background on the Lovings’ relationship, a brief history of miscegenation law, and how the Loving’s legal battle changed the United States forever.

  • The End of Anti-Miscegenation Laws: Loving v. Virginia and Interracial Relationships Multiracial Media 2016-11-03 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Little Rock, Arkansas protest to keep anti-miscegenation laws on the books. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia.Commons This past weekend, the new movie Loving hit theaters. The film…

  • What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…

  • The Crime of Being Married Life Magazine 1966-03-18 pages 85- Source: Library of Virginia Photographs by Grey Villet A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against miscegenation She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of Virginia, which…