{"id":26136,"date":"2012-10-22T01:14:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26136"},"modified":"2013-06-11T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:30:42","slug":"the-crime-of-being-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26136","title":{"rendered":"The Crime of Being Married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lva.omeka.net\/items\/show\/58\" target=\"_blank\">The Crime of Being Married<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life Magazine<br \/>\n1966-03-18<br \/>\npages 85-<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/lva.omeka.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographs by Grey Villet<\/p>\n<p><em>A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>, which specifically forbids interracial marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred and Richard Loving<\/a> lost one more round in a seven-year legal battle, when the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state&#8217;s antimiscegenation law. Once again they and their three children were faced with the loss of home and livelihood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/lva.omeka.net\/items\/show\/58\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crime of Being Married Life Magazine 1966-03-18 pages 85- Source: Library of Virginia Photographs by Grey Villet A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against miscegenation She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of Virginia, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20,693],"tags":[8995,12565,70,12564,2754,1335],"class_list":["post-26136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-grey-villet","tag-life-magazine","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-mildred-jeeter-loving","tag-mildred-loving","tag-richard-loving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136","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=26136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}