{"id":47291,"date":"2016-06-04T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47291"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:31:31","slug":"mylovingday-how-the-lovings-trials-paved-the-way-for-todays-multiracial-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47291","title":{"rendered":"#myLovingDay: How the Lovings&#8217; trials paved the way for today&#8217;s multiracial families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-loving-day-snap-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>#myLovingDay: How the Lovings&#8217; trials paved the way for today&#8217;s multiracial families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle Maltais<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-loving-day-snap-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-57509198\/turbine\/la-1464898098-snap-photo\/800\/800x450\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred and Richard Loving<\/a>, convicted in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I like to say that I <em>am<\/em> because of Loving. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred and Richard Loving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1970s when my parents met, the only laws that really mattered in their relationship were the laws of attraction. But in 1958 when <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/may\/07\/local\/me-loving7\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred and Richard married<\/a>, interracial marriage wasn\u2019t just complicated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14135\" target=\"_blank\">it was illegal<\/a>. Since they couldn\u2019t get married in their home state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> (or 24 other states), they went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">District of Columbia<\/a> and were wed on June 2, 1958&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;My own \u201cLoving\u201d story started in the early \u201970s in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_Desert,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Desert, Calif<\/a>. At that time, no one else in my neighborhood\u200a \u2014\u200a or in my school \u2014\u200a looked like me. No one\u2019s family looked like mine.<\/p>\n<p>Was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> in the early 1970s anything like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">South<\/a> of the \u201850s and \u201860s? Not at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-loving-day-snap-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#myLovingDay: How the Lovings&#8217; trials paved the way for today&#8217;s multiracial families The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-03 Michelle Maltais Mildred and Richard Loving, convicted in Virginia of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press) I like to say that I am because of Loving. Mildred and Richard Loving. In the early 1970s when my parents met, the [&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],"tags":[455,3909,70,23968,13272],"class_list":["post-47291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-michelle-maltais","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291","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=47291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47311,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291\/revisions\/47311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}