{"id":49777,"date":"2016-11-04T14:53:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49777"},"modified":"2016-11-04T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:35:41","slug":"the-lovings-marriage-license-is-now-on-display-at-d-c-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49777","title":{"rendered":"The Lovings’ Marriage License Is Now On Display At D.C. Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lovings’ Marriage License Is Now On Display At D.C. Court<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

DCist<\/a>
\nWashington, D.C.
\n2016-08-31<\/p>\n

Rachel Kurzius<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPhoto courtesy of D.C. Courts<\/a>.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

D.C. Superior Courthttp:\/\/dccourts.gov\/internet\/superior\/main.jsf<\/a>\u2014not usually a stop for tourists looking for the kinds of historic documents found in the Smithsonian museums. Now, though, the court’s marriage bureau is displaying a collection of seven notable marriage applications, according to a D.C. Courts Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most significant is that of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter<\/a>, an interracial couple from Virginia<\/a> who married in D.C. because anti-miscegenation laws made their union illegal in their home state. They were arrested and charged with violating the Racial Integrity Act<\/a> when they returned to Virginia…<\/p>\n

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

The Lovings’ Marriage License Is Now On Display At D.C. Court DCist Washington, D.C. 2016-08-31 Rachel Kurzius Photo courtesy of D.C. Courts. D.C. Superior Courthttp:\/\/dccourts.gov\/internet\/superior\/main.jsf\u2014not usually a stop for tourists looking for the kinds of historic documents found in the Smithsonian museums. Now, though, the court’s marriage bureau is displaying a collection of seven notable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,20,693],"tags":[25358,70,25359,25360],"class_list":["post-49777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-dcist","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-rachel-kurzius","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49777","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=49777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49778,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49777\/revisions\/49778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}