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Mildred Loving 1939-2008

By chancelucky on  From chancelucky.blogspot.com
Mildred Loving died at the age of 68 last week. If you don’t know the name, it might be a good thing. She was the plaintiff in Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court Case that finally declared laws banning interracial marriages unconstitutional in 1967. Until 1967 some 17 states had laws against interracial marriage. Does that date sound a little late to you? A lot has happened in forty one years. One of those things is that my wife and I got married way back in 1989, actually just twenty one...Read Full Story

Same-sex marriage supporter Loving dies

By mikeopera on  From mikeopera.blogspot.com
Va. woman, husband fought to overturn ban on interracial unions By LISA KEEN, Washington Blade The woman who started a ball rolling toward knocking down laws banning interracial marriage and who late in life also spoke out against bans on gay marriage has died. Mildred Loving died Friday, May 2, in Milford, Va. She was 68. The cause of death was not available, but gay activist Mitchell Gold, who met with her a year ago about speaking out against anti-gay marriage laws, said Loving was already...Read Full Story

Mildred Loving, Matriarch of Interracial Marriage, Dies

By thecwexperience on  From thecwexperience.wordpress.com
Thanx Nicole ( http://bwlovingnonbm.blogspot.com/ )For This story…May Mildred be reunited with her husband! http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hB_lXH3EjHqSeJYEbQrt00rG4YmQD90FIFEGK RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday. Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. She did not...Read Full Story

Mildred Loving dies; case led to end of interracial marriage ban

By weneedtostopDOTcom on  From weneedtostop.com
Mildred Jeter Loving, 68, passed away from pneumonia in her Milford, VA home this past Friday. She refused to accept Virginia's ban on interracial marriage and led a fight which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking bans on mixed marriages across the country. Her husband was Richard Loving and they had three children together. She always said she did nothing noteworthy and never considered herself a pioneer. According to the U.S. Census bureau, there are 4.3 milion interracial...Read Full Story

Mildred Loving: amazing woman

By amyru on  From appetiteforequalrights.blogspot.com
I have to pay homage to the wonderful Mildred Loving, who unfortunately passed away today at the age of 68. For those of you who don't know, Loving was a pioneer advocate for interracial marriage. In 1967, she challenged Virginia's ban on interracial marriage with the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia. The Court ruled to abolish all laws that banned interracial marriage. It was an amazing achievement and I want us to all remember it.Read Full Story
Their marriage was, a violation of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act banning interracial marriage. Richard and Mildred Loving were both sent to jail, charged criminally, convicted of felonies and banished from Virginia, the harsh beginning of a ...  
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By David BoazTonight HBO will broadcast “The Loving Story,” a documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple whose marriage was banned by the state of Virginia and ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court in 1947. Mildred Jeter, a black woman (though she also had Native American heritage and may have preferred to think of herself as Indian), [...]A Day for Loving is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog  
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Mildred Loving, who died in 2008, apparently didn't think much of the 1996 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Loving," starring Lela Rochon and Timothy Hutton ... Slavery by Another Name," 9 p.m. Monday on PBS. Laurence Fishburne narrates a look at racist labor practices ...  
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Loving v. Virginia. Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and Mildred Delores Jeter, a woman of black and Native-American descent, married in Washington, D.C., on June 2, 1958. After returning to their home in Caroline County, Va., they were arrested ...  
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A case for interracial marriageWashington Post (blog)By Joy Freeman-Coulbary Mildred Loving and her husband, Richard, took their case to the US Supreme Court, which in 1967 struck down bans on interracial marriage. (AP - ASSOCIATED PRESS) This past week, still pregnant with freshly minted 2012 ...  
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The most striking thing about Mildred and Richard Loving is that they never wanted to be known. They didn't want to change history or face down racism. They just wanted to come home to Virginia to be near their families. The Lovings weren't radicals. They were just two people in love—one of them a taciturn white guy described by one of their lawyers as a "redneck," the other a sweet, soft-spoken young woman of black and American Indian...  
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The most striking thing about Mildred and Richard Loving is that they never wanted to be known. They didn't want to change history or face down racism. They just wanted to come home to Virginia to be near their families. The Lovings weren't ...  
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For most lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia is a familiar one. The 1967 decision struck down Virginia’s antimiscegenation statute, which prohibited and criminalized interracial marriage. Now a documentary film is bringing to light the story of the people behind the seminal civil rights decision. Filmmaker Nancy Buirski says she became interested in making The Loving Story after reading Mildred Loving’s obituary in the New...  
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But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred Loving, of African American and Native American descent. The case changed history - and was captured on film by LIFE photographer Grey ...  
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Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal. But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred Loving, of African American and ...  
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