Tag: Mildred Jeter Loving

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.

  • Virginia Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week The New York Times 1965-01-24 page 43 RICHMOND, Jan. 23—A constitutional test of Virginia laws that make it a crime for a white person to marry a Negro will begin here next week. The case is regarded as certain to go to the United…

  • Mildred Loving The Economist 2008-05-15 Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68 The loved each other. That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house. There was little else in the bedroom, save the bed. Certainly nothing worth…

  • Long Way Home: The Loving Story Augusta Films 2010 Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James Richard and Mildred Loving, Circa 1967 This documentary feature film, currently in production, tells the dramatic story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a black and Cherokee woman married to a white man (against the law in…

  • The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed Time Magazine 1967-06-23 Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. “Almighty God,” he intoned, “created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The…

  • The Blurring of the Lines: Children and Bans on Interrracial Unions and Same-Sex Marriages Fordham Law Review May 2008 Volume 76, Number 6 pages 2733-2770 Carlos A. Ball, Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar Rutgers University School of Law, Newark When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter drove from their hometown of Central Point,…