Loving, Mildred

Loving, Mildred
▪ 2009
Mildred Delores Jeter 
      American civil rights activist

born July 22, 1939, Virginia

died May 2, 2008, Central Point, Va.
was one of the plaintiffs in the landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, in which the court overturned long-standing miscegenation laws that had prohibited interracial marriages. In 1958 Mildred Jeter married her high-school sweetheart, Richard Loving, in the District of Columbia, but when the two returned home to Virginia, they were unaware that their marriage—between a black woman and a white man—was invalid there. The Lovings were jailed and charged with unlawful cohabitation. Though they were sentenced to one year's imprisonment, they were allowed to have that sentence suspended if they left the state for 25 years. The couple moved to Washington, D.C., but on a visit home in 1964, they were arrested for traveling together. In light of the 1964 civil rights laws, the Lovings secured an attorney and in April 1967 took their case to the Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled in their favour.

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