Posted on Jun 12, 2021
Today Is Loving Day — When Interracial Marriage Finally Became Legal In The U.S.
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When Richard and Mildred Loving awoke in the middle of the night a few weeks after their June, 1958 wedding, it wasn't normal newlywed ardor. There were policemen with flashlights in their bedroom. They'd come to arrest the couple.
"They asked Richard who was that woman he was sleeping with? I say, I'm his wife, and the sheriff said, not here you're not. And they said, come on, let's go, Mildred Loving recalled that night in the HBO documentary The Loving Story.
The Lovings had committed what Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white.
Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And on June 12, 1967, the couple won.
Now, each year on this date, "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage — and legalized interracial marriage in every state.
When Richard and Mildred Loving awoke in the middle of the night a few weeks after their June, 1958 wedding, it wasn't normal newlywed ardor. There were policemen with flashlights in their bedroom. They'd come to arrest the couple.
"They asked Richard who was that woman he was sleeping with? I say, I'm his wife, and the sheriff said, not here you're not. And they said, come on, let's go, Mildred Loving recalled that night in the HBO documentary The Loving Story.
The Lovings had committed what Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white.
Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And on June 12, 1967, the couple won.
Now, each year on this date, "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage — and legalized interracial marriage in every state.
Today Is Loving Day — When Interracial Marriage Finally Became Legal In The U.S.
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1LT William Clardy
No stranger than today, just different criteria by which folks judged each other.
Fortunately, most of it isn't written into laws anymore.
Fortunately, most of it isn't written into laws anymore.
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SGT Herbert Bollum
1LT William Clardy - Not only were they strange then...also there is only one race (human).
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1LT William Clardy
You're mistaking species for race, SGT Herbert Bollum.
But don't let me put a dent in your hubris. Feel free to judge prior generations and their times by your omniscient standards.
But don't let me put a dent in your hubris. Feel free to judge prior generations and their times by your omniscient standards.
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