{"id":415,"date":"2009-08-21T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=415"},"modified":"2016-12-17T23:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T23:09:45","slug":"loving-versus-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Loving v. Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_v._Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>: <em>Loving v. (versus) [Commonwealth of] Virginia<\/em>, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court by a [unanimous] 9-0 vote declared [on 1967-06-12] <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia&#8217;s<\/a> anti-miscegenation statute, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14135\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Integrity Act of 1924<\/a>&#8220;, unconstitutional, thereby overturning <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pace_v._Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Pace v. Alabama (1883)<\/a><\/em> and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/primary-source\/loving-v-virginia\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com\/image\/upload\/w_652\/jbkgmwc3oghxhamgyam1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Source: <em>Talking Points Memo<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred Loving<\/a> (nee Mildred Delores Jeter, a woman of African and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rappahannock_Tribe\" target=\"_blank\">Rappahannock Native American<\/a> descent, July 22, 1939 \u2013 May 2, 2008) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Perry Loving<\/a> (a white man, October 29, 1933 \u2013 June 1975), were residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia who had been married in June 1958 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">District of Columbia<\/a>, having left Virginia to evade the <em>Racial Integrity Act<\/em>, a state law banning marriages between any white person and any non-white person. Upon their return to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_County,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline County, Virginia<\/a>, they were charged with violation of the ban.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments by Steven F. Riley:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/historics\/USSC_CR_0388_0001_ZO.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the\u00a0<em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> ruling in 1967 applied to the 16 remaining states that had enacted\u00a0anti-miscegenation statutes.\u00a0 <strong>Thus it is a fallacy to state that &#8216;interracial marriage was illegal in the United States until <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em>. <\/strong>Most states had in fact, repealed their anti-miscegenation laws and a few <em>never<\/em> enacted any such laws at all (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Hawaii and Alaska).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Loving v. (versus) [Commonwealth of] Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court by a [unanimous] 9-0 vote declared [on 1967-06-12] Virginia&#8217;s anti-miscegenation statute, the &#8220;Racial Integrity Act of 1924&#8220;, unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,459,1467,693],"tags":[69,70,259,20757],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-history","category-law","category-virginia","tag-anti-miscegenation-laws","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-marriage","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50767,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/50767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}