{"id":11212,"date":"2011-01-02T23:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2011-01-02T23:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:27:52","slug":"brief-history-loving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11212","title":{"rendered":"Brief History: Loving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1996028,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Brief History: Loving Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine<br \/>\n2010-06-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Shay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In  February 1961, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> parents did something that was illegal in 22  states and that 96% of the population disapproved of: they got married. In fact,  interracial marriage, sex and cohabitation would remain illegal in much of the  U.S. for another six years. Then on June 12, 1967, in the case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving v.  Virginia<\/em><\/a>, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the country<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">\u2019<\/a>s  anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws, allowing interracial couples across the country to  marry. Thirteen years after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brown_v._Board_of_Education\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em><\/a>, the court took  the last legal teeth out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow era<\/a>, ridding the U.S. of its last major  piece of state-sanctioned segregation. June 12 has since become a grass-roots  holiday in the U.S., especially for multiracial couples and families. Known as  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovingday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loving Day<\/a>, the celebration commemorates the 1967 case and fights prejudice  against mixed-race couples, and is a reason to throw an awesome, inclusive  party&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1996028,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief History: Loving Day Time Magazine 2010-06-11 Christopher Shay In February 1961, Barack Obama\u2019s parents did something that was illegal in 22 states and that 96% of the population disapproved of: they got married. In fact, interracial marriage, sex and cohabitation would remain illegal in much of the U.S. for another six years. Then on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,394,20],"tags":[5005,5006,70,3521],"class_list":["post-11212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-christopher-shay","tag-loving-day","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}