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Historical Highway MarkersRichard and Mildred LovingND-16
Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, of different racial backgrounds, grew up near Central Point, 11 miles east of here. They fell in love and in June 1958 were married in Washington, D.C. After returning to Central Point, they were arrested for violating the state's laws against interracial marriage, which made it a felony for interracial couples to leave Virginia, marry, and resume residence in the state. The Lovings were convicted in 1959 at the Caroline County courthouse. The case reached the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, which in 1966 upheld the state’s laws. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Loving v. Virginia overturned all laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Sheryll Cashin, Loving: Interracial Marriage in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017). Phyl Newbeck, Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Peter Wallenstein, Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia (Lawrence; University Press of Kansas, 2014). Peter Wallenstein, Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law—An American History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Loving_v_Virginia_1967 https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Loving_v_Virginia_June_12_1967 |