Friday, March 3, 2017

Mixed Race Marriage in America: A Tribute to Mildred and Richard Loving


This video was published on YouTube on July 10, 2014. 

In 1958, a mixed-race couple, Mildred and Richard Loving, were arrested and then banished from the US state of Virginia for breaking its laws against inter-racial marriage. Nine years later, Mildred and Richard Loving won a ruling at the Supreme Court declaring this sort of legislation unconstitutional. 

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