Film retells Lovings’ love storyPosted in Articles, History, Law, Live Events, New Media, United States, Videos, Virginia on 2012-02-06 21:38Z by Steven |
Film retells Lovings’ love story
The Free Lance-Star
Fredericksburg, Virginia
2012-02-06
Mildred and Richard Loving were probably the last people you would expect to make legal history, but in 1967 they won a U.S. Supreme Court case that nullified laws against interracial marriage in Virginia and the 15 other states that still banned miscegenation. And it happened in Caroline County.
Their story has become legend in certain legal and civil rights circles, but their historic ordeal is less well known to younger generations and people in other areas of the country. That’s about to change.
HBO will première “The Loving Story” on Valentine’s Day—Feb. 14.
The producers have been screening the film across the country, and on Saturday they brought it home. Friends, family and admirers packed the auditorium of the Caroline County Community Services Center. The screening ended with a standing ovation.
The documentary, directed by Nancy Buirski, is mostly made up of black-and-white footage shot by Hope Ryden in 1965 and black-and-white photos taken by Life magazine photographer Grey Villet, also in 1965…
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