EMANCIPATION

(Editor's Note- Mildred Loving passed away this year. As we note the discussions about the advent of a post-racial society, it is informative to reflect upon the relative historical legal landscape)



1958 - In an early morning in 1958, when Richard and Mildred Loving were awakened to police flashlights shining in their faces, and demands of "Mr. Loving, who is this black woman in your bed?", longstanding tradition was not on their side.
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Jun 1958 - Mildred Loving was an African American woman who married Richard Loving, a white man, in Washington, DC in June 1958. Thereafter, they returned to their home state of Virginia where they intended to settle down and raise a family. The State of Virginia, however, had other ...
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1959
1959 - In 1959, Caroline County, Va., circuit court judge Leon Bazile invoked a similar "self-evident" argument when sentencing Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Loving, a woman of black and Native American heritage, to a year in prison for having married out of ... Show more
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1965
Jan 26, 1965 - Mildred Loving and her husband Richard Loving are shown in this January 26, 1965, file photograph. Mildred Loving's challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge Read More...
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2007
Jun 12, 2007 - On June 12, 2007, fourty years after she won the right to be married to Richard Loving in every state in the Union, Mildred Loving released a statement supporting the struggle of gay men and women to be married. It concludes as follows ... Show more
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2008
May 6, 2008 - By DOUGLAS MARTIN. Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68. Mildred and Richard Loving, ...
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