{"id":20414,"date":"2012-02-06T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20414"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:41:32","slug":"film-retells-lovings%e2%80%99-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20414","title":{"rendered":"Film retells Lovings\u2019 love story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film retells Lovings\u2019 love story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Free Lance-Star
\nFredericksburg, Virginia
\n2012-02-06<\/p>\n

Jonas Beals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mildred and Richard Loving<\/a> were probably the last people you would expect to make legal history, but in 1967 they won a U.S. Supreme Court case<\/a> that nullified laws against interracial marriage in Virginia<\/a> and the 15 other states that still banned miscegenation<\/a>. And it happened in Caroline County<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s about to change.<\/p>\n

HBO will premi\u00e8re \u201cThe Loving Story<\/a>\u201d on Valentine\u2019s Day\u2014Feb. 14.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The documentary, directed by Nancy Buirski<\/a>, 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<\/a>, also in 1965…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film retells Lovings\u2019 love story The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-06 Jonas Beals 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,13,6,20,842,693],"tags":[9548,9547,70,5034,9544,9546,20757],"class_list":["post-20414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-liveevents","category-new-media","category-usa","category-videos","category-virginia","tag-caroline-county","tag-jonas-beals","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-nancy-buirski","tag-peggy-loving-fortune","tag-the-free-lance-star","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20414","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=20414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}