Mildred Delores Jeter Loving (June 22, 1939–May 2, 2008) and her husband Richard Perry Loving (October 29, 1933–June 29, 1975) were plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967).
The Lovings were an interracial married couple who were criminally charged under a Virginia statute banning such marriages. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lovings filed suit seeking to overturn the law. In 1967, th...
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Mildred Delores Jeter Loving (June 22, 1939–May 2, 2008) and her husband Richard Perry Loving (October 29, 1933–June 29, 1975) were plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967).
The Lovings were an interracial married couple who were criminally charged under a Virginia statute banning such marriages. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lovings filed suit seeking to overturn the law. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, striking down the Virginia statute and all state anti-miscegenation laws as unconstitutional violations of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Mildred Loving (born Mildred Delores Jeter) was of African-American and Rappahannock Native American descent. Richard Loving was of European descent.
Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving met when she was 11 and he was 17. He was a family friend and years later they began dating. They lived in Virginia, where interracial marriage was banned by the Racial Integrity Act of 1924....
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