When is National Loving Day?
Monday June 12thEach year, National Loving Day on June 12th commemorates the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia.. This decision suspended all anti-miscegenation laws in sixteen U.S. states, which were unveiled in sixteen states. There can be no doubt that restricting the right to marry solely because of racial groups in violation of the equal protection clause, the judge said. In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were established as part of state legislation prohibiting interracial marriage..
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Mildred and Richard, her childhood friends, met when she was 11, and he was 17. They began courting over the years. They began practicing. The couple married in Washington and returned to Richmond north of Richmond in 1958, when Mildred turned 18. Mildred's 18th birthday. The couple were arrested two weeks later, but two weeks later, police arrested them again. Mildred and Richard did not know that Virginia considered interracial marriage unlawful until the state of Virginia.' The Lovings pleaded guilty, and to avoid prison time, they decided to leave Virginia in order to avoid prison time.
The Lovings began legal action by writing to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy while living in Washington, D.C., while living in Washington, D.C., while living in Washington, D.C. The case was referred to the American Civil Liberties Union by Kennedy. The Warren Court unanimously ruled in their favour, and the Lovings returned to their Virginia home, where they resided with their three children.
