Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Mildred Loving, RIP:
"In 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman from Virginia, drove 80 miles to Washington, D.C. with her boyfriend Richard Loving, a white man, to get married. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, such a union violated state miscegenation laws. But when the Lovings returned to their home town of Central Point, VA, they were arrested in bed.
...The Virginia law, which dated back to 1662, was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1967. It was a unanimous decision.
Mildred Loving died yesterday. She was 68."
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