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Phil Hirschkop. Philip Jay Hirschkop (born May 14, 1936) is an American civil rights lawyer. With fellow American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) volunteer cooperating attorney Bernard S. Cohen, the two represented Mildred and Richard Loving in several court cases to overturn the Lovings' conviction for interracial marriage in the state of Virginia. [1]
The Richmond 34 refers to a group of Virginia Union University students who participated in a nonviolent sit-in at the lunch counter of Thalhimers department store in downtown Richmond, Virginia. The event was one of many sit-ins to occur throughout the civil rights movement in the 1960s and was essential to helping desegregate the city of ...
The Union regiments were designated "Virginia" until West Virginia statehood and the designation changed to "West Virginia".On Nov. 20, 1861, the adjutant-general of the Restored Government, Henry J. Samuels, sent a roster of regiments and recruits to the adjutant-general of the U.S. Army.
Former president Donald Trump repeated a familiar false claim that some states allow people to obtain abortions after a baby is born on the debate stage Tuesday evening – a claim that was ...
A love story this epic needs to be told in an epic way. Thus, the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose case overturned states’ laws banning interracial marriage, will be ...
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.
Richmond Newspapers Inc. v. Virginia, 448 U.S. 555 (1980), is a United States Supreme Court case involving issues of privacy in correspondence with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the freedom of the press, the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Live updates: West Virginia hands UCF football 5th straight Big 12 loss. Gannett. Chris Boyle, Daytona Beach News-Journal. October 28, 2023 at 3:23 PM.