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Equality Forum
Equality Forum Mourns Civil Rights Pioneer Mildred Loving
May 24th, 2008
In 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman legally married Richard Loving, a white man in the District of Columbia. They returned to their home in Virginia. Under a Virginia law enacted in 1662, blacks and whites were prohibited from marrying. In 1967, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down miscegenation laws that prohibited blacks and whites from marrying as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause. "Equality Forum mourns Mildred Loving. She is a civil rights pioneer and a historic American. Richard and Mildred Loving championed the right of each citizen to marry the life partner of their choice," stated Malcolm Lazin,...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-24)
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