Articles tagged with: Loving v. Virginia (1967)
What Loving, and loving, are all about
On this date 45 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia, a landmark case which declared Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 unconstitutional, and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the U.S. Today is a good day to remember Mildred and Richard Loving and the freedom to marry they won for people of different races who love one another. May we one day also — and soon — celebrate our own freedom to marry.
