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Loving v. Virginia, , was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.
The plaintiff, Mildred Loving (nee Mildred Delores Jeter, a woman of Africa and Rappahannock Native American descent, 1939 – May 2 2008) and Richard Perry Loving (a white man,...
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