Richard Loving (Happy Birthday!) OC

Mildred and Richard Loving are best known for having gone against the anti-miscegenation laws in Virginia. They married in 1958 in Washington DC, however when they moved back to their home town of Central Point, Virginia, their home was raided by the police. After appealing to Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the American Civil Liberties Union, the case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, and on June 12th, 1967 the unanimous decision was reached that the Commonwealth of Virginia's argument that a law forbidding both white and black persons from marrying persons of another race violated both the Due Process Clause and the Equal P

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