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Loving vs Virginia

By HITORMISS

  • Laws to prevent intermarriage

    the state’s Act to Preserve Racial Integrity, adopted in 1924.

  • A Loving Marriage

    Richard and Mildred Loving decided to go to Washington to get married June 2nd 1958.

  • A Rude Awakening

    Just five weeks after the Lovings got married they woken up by an a local sheriff at 2 am. Richard and Mildred were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law, which deemed interracial marriages a felony.

  • The battle for love

    In 1963, a desperate Mildred Loving wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asking for assistance.The Lovings began their legal battle in November 1963.

  • The battle for love begins

    Following another appeal, the case made its way to the United States Supreme Court in April 1967.

  • The battle for love is won

    The Supreme Court announced its ruling in Loving v. Virginia on June 12, 1967. In a unanimous decision, the justices found that Virginia’s interracial marriage law violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.