{"id":20329,"date":"2012-02-02T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2012-02-06T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:40:02","slug":"art-review-a-life-of-marital-bliss-segregation-laws-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20329","title":{"rendered":"Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/the-loving-story-at-international-center-of-photography.html?ref=race\" target=\"_blank\">Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times<br \/>\n2012-01-26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha Schwendener<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the difference between a political activist and a political hero? It\u2019s often a matter of intention versus accident. Within the civil rights movement Rosa Parks is seen as an activist: She trained at the Highlander Folk School for social justice in Tennessee, and her refusal to give up her seat on a crowded bus was the catalyst for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott\" target=\"_blank\">1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard and Mildred Loving<\/a>, an interracial couple from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> whose marriage prompted a benchmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">1967 Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws<\/a>, are portrayed in \u201cThe Loving Story: Photographs by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greyvillet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grey Villet<\/a>\u201d as heroes who fell into history by accident.<\/p>\n<p>he Loving story is well known in the annals of American civil rights history. It began on July 11, 1958, when a Virginia county sheriff and two deputies entered the Lovings\u2019 bedroom at 2 a.m. and arrested them for violating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14135\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Integrity Act<\/a>, which banned interracial marriage. (Or you might say it began several years earlier, when Richard Loving, a white teenager, met Mildred Jeter, a girl of African-American and American Indian descent, six years his junior.)<\/p>\n<p>When, at 18, Mildred became pregnant, the couple decided to marry in Washington, D.C., where interracial marriage was legal. They were arrested five weeks later when they returned to Virginia and tried to live as husband and wife, kicking off a nine-year legal odyssey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/the-loving-story-at-international-center-of-photography.html?ref=race\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside) The New York Times 2012-01-26 Martha Schwendener What\u2019s the difference between a political activist and a political hero? It\u2019s often a matter of intention versus accident. Within the civil rights movement Rosa Parks is seen as an activist: She trained at the Highlander Folk School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1467,8,20],"tags":[8995,70,9469,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-20329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-grey-villet","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-martha-schwendener","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329","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=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}