From Wikipedea: Loving Day originated with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The case was brought by Mildred Loving (née Jeter), a woman of Black and Native American descent[9] classified as "colored" under Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, and Richard Loving, a white man. The couple met in Central Point, Virginia, when she was 11 and he was 17.[10] Richard Loving was a family friend and they courted over the years. In June 1958, after she became pregnant, they married in Washington, D.C.[11][9] Mildred Loving was 18 at the time and reportedly did not realize that interracial marriage was illegal.[11] Five weeks following their wedding, they were arrested and returned to their hometown north of Richmond, Virginia.[9][12] They pleaded guilty to charges of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth." The Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison but avoided jail time by leaving Virginia and agreeing not to return to the state for 25 years.[13][11]
The Lovings moved to Washington, D.C. and began legal action by writing to U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.[14] Kennedy referred the case to the American Civil Liberties Union. Two lawyers, Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, took up the case, arguing that the Virginia law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.[11]
The Warren Court unanimously ruled in favor of the young couple on June 12, 1967, nine years after their wedding, and they returned to Virginia, where they lived with their three children.[11] The court's ruling eliminated anti-miscegenation laws in all 16 states that had them.[12]
In 1975, Richard Loving died in a car accident. Mildred Loving died May 5, 2008, at the age of 68.[15
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