Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, first met when she was 11 and he was 17. He was a family friend and over the years they courted. After she became pregnant, they married ...
Fifty-three years ago on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans against interracial marriage. The landmark legal challenge was brought to the nation's highest court by a Virginia ...
Editor's note: This story was originally published for CNN on April 13, 2017. A century after the end of the Civil War, more than a dozen states still had laws on the books banning interracial ...
In 1958, Virginia couple Mildred Jeter, who was Black, and Richard Loving, who was white, were in love and wanted to marry. Interracial marriage was against the law in 24 U.S. states, including ...
(WFXR) – Friday marks 53 years since the United States Supreme Court made a historic ruling in the landmark case, Loving vs. Virginia. The Court’s ruling struck down laws banning interracial marriage ...
The highly praised, Nancy Buirski-directed documentary The Loving Story will make its television debut this Valentine’s Day on HBO. The documentary details the lives of the high-profile interracial ...