Loving Day is observed each year on June 12. Loving Day commemorates a date in history when the Supreme Court of America ruled to disband all anti-miscegenation laws in 1967. The anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia.
Childhood friends, Mildred and Richard, met when she was 11, and he was 17. Over the years they began courting and in 1958 when she turned 18, they married in Washington.
This, however, was only a short term solution. The law in Virginia not only forbade interracial marriage ceremonies, but it also forbade interracial couples from getting married elsewhere and then returning to their home state. Not long after their return to Virginia, the newly-married Loving couple were awakened by the police and taken to jail for the crime of having an interracial marriage.
After that Robert F. Kennedy referred the case on to the American Civil Liberties Union. The Warren Court unanimously ruled in their favor, and the Loving’s returned to their Virginia home where they resided with their three children.
Happy Loving Day....
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