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Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia that struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states. [1] [2] [3] In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were U.S. state laws banning mixed-race marriages.
June 12, 2007 "Loving Day statement by Mildred Loving" Archived October 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; ABC News: "A Groundbreaking Interracial Marriage; Loving v. Virginia at 40.", ABC News interview with Mildred Jeter Loving; video clip of original 1967 broadcast, accessed June 14, 2007 "Mr. & Mrs. Loving". IMDb. Lovingday.org
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
June 12, the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, is now recognized nationally as Loving Day. Turner said that in addition to telling a Virginia story, they wanted a Virginian to write the story.
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In 1967, an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, successfully challenged the constitutionality of the ban on interracial marriage in Virginia. Their case reached the U.S. Supreme Court as Loving v. Virginia. In 1958, the Lovings married in Washington, D.C. to evade Virginia's anti-miscegenation law (the Racial Integrity Act). On ...
Bernard S. Cohen (January 17, 1934 – October 12, 2020) was a civil liberties attorney and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates.On April 10, 1967, appearing with co-counsel Philip Hirschkop on behalf of the ACLU, Cohen presented oral argument for the petitioners in Loving v.