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Loving is a 2016 biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia , which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage .
The final sentence in Mildred Loving's obituary in the New York Times notes her statement to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia: [24] "A modest homemaker, Loving never thought she had done anything extraordinary. 'It wasn't my doing,' Loving told the Associated Press in a rare interview [in 2007]. 'It was God's work.'" [25]
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A love story this epic needs to be told in an epic way. Thus, the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose case overturned states’ laws banning interracial marriage, will be ...
Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Loving, a black woman, married in 1958 and were sentenced to prison for their union due to laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
The Fleisher's have been married since 1975, seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage in the landmark case Loving v. Virginia. (AP Photo/John C ...
The film tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. [1] [2] [3] The film stars Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving, with Ruth Negga co-starring as Mildred Loving. [4]
Loving, an American film; Loving, a British television film based on the novel by Henry Green; Loving, a film about the Supreme Court decision Loving v.Virginia; Carry On Loving, a 1970 film in the Carry On series