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Mildred Delores Loving (née Jeter; July 22, 1939 – May 2, 2008) ... They were arrested at night by the county sheriff who had received an anonymous tip, ...
According to Mildred Loving, "not much of it was very true. The only part of it right was I had three children." [78] [79] Nancy Buirski's documentary The Loving Story, premiered on HBO in February 2012 [80] [81] and won a Peabody Award that year. [82] Loving, a dramatized telling of the story based on Buirski's documentary, was released in 2016.
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 ...
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 .
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. "Loving" celebrates the ...
[6] In 1967 the law banning interracial marriage was ruled unconstitutional (via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868) by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. [3] Many states refused to adapt their laws to this ruling with Alabama in 2000 being the last US state to remove anti-miscegenation language from the state constitution. [7]
Arrested on the night of their wedding, Richard Loving and Mildred “Bean” Jeter are given the option to either be imprisoned or leave the state. The couple chooses to move to Washington, D.C. The Civil Rights Movement and the fight for their marriage led to their win of the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia.