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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.
June 12 has become known as Loving Day in the United States, an unofficial holiday celebrating interracial marriages. The Loving Story (2011), an HBO-produced documentary which was screened at many film festivals, including Silverdocs Documentary Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The film includes rare ...
Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868.
The claim: Richard and Mildred Loving were convicted for being in an interracial marriage and later won a 1967 Supreme Court case that declared a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage ...
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 ...
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 ...
For the radical abolitionists who organized to oppose slavery in the 1830s, laws banning interracial marriage embodied the same racial prejudice that they saw at the root of slavery. Abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison took aim at Massachusetts' legal ban on interracial marriage as early as 1831. Anti-abolitionists defended the measure ...
It was only 51 years ago that the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...