Mildred and Richard Loving

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    Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in 1959 for violating South Carolina’s anti-miscegenation statue, barring interracial marriage between people of color and whites. The Lovings, who had to travel hundreds of miles to Washington DC to legally wed in an attempt to appease South Carolina law, were charged and found guilty for "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth" (Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). As part of their sentence, the Lovings were forced

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    The Case Of Richard And Mildred Loving

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    Richard and Mildred Loving were prosecuted on charges of violating the Virginia state’s ban on interracial marriages, the 1924 Racial Integrity Act. The Loving’s violated Virginia law when the couple got married in Washington D.C., June 1958. The couple returns to their home in Central Point, Virginia. In the early morning hours of July 11, 1958, the Loving’s were awakened by local county sheriff and deputies, acting on an anonymous tip, burst into their bedroom. “Who is this woman you’re sleeping

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    Loving Story Essay

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    The Loving Story The journey that Richard and Mildred Loving took is important for history and for the future of civil rights in the United States. I recently watched the documentary The Loving Story and enjoyed the footage, pictures, and interviews of everyone involved in the Loving v. Virginia case. The documentary addressed the issue of interracial marriage in Virginia in 1967. The married partners, Richard and Mildred, were woken up in the middle of the night and were criminally charged for

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     In 1958, in the District of Columbia, Richard Loving, a white man and Mildred Jeter, a black woman was married. Shortly after the marriage the Loving’s returned to Virginia. Upon returning to Virginia the couple was charged with violating Virginia’s Anti-miscegenation Statue. That bans inter-racial marriages. The Loving’s were found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail but the judge offered to suspend their sentence if the Loving’s were to leave Virginia and not return for 25 years.  Racial

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    Mildred Delores Jeter was born in Central Point, Virginia on June 22, 1939. Mildred’s parents were Theoliver Jeter and Musiel Byrd Jeter. Mildred Loving was of African American, European and Native American origin, specifically from the Cherokee and Rappahannock tribes. Mildred 's family had lived in the area around Central Point, Virginia for a long time, where blacks and whites mixed freely with little racial conflict even at the peak of the Jim Crow era. Mildred was a shy woman who became a reluctant

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    “arose[d] as an incident to slavery and [had] been common in Virginia since the colonial period” (Loving v. Virginia). Also, after the ratification of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which stated that no caucasian person could ever mix bloods with any other race such as African American or Native America in Virginia, miscegenation was outlawed in Virginia in to the hopes to maintain pure white bloodlines (Loving v. Virginia; Wolfe). The local Virginia government later stated that it was not a racist or

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    Case Citation Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1(1967) Parties Petitioner: Mildred and Richard loving Respondent: State of Virginia Facts The Petitioners were married in the District of Columbia pursuant to its laws. Shortly after their marriage, the Petitioners returned to Virginia and were charged by a grand jury with violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages. The Petitioners pled guilty to the violation and left the State of Virginia pursuant to a condition of their judicial sentence.

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    soldiers, Freedom from search and seizure, Freedom from self-incrimination, Trail by jury, Protection from excessive bail, and Unlisted rights and powers (Hall, 2014). CASE ANALYSIS OF LOVING v. VIRGINIA, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) This case involves both Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving. Mildred is a black woman and Richard is a white man, who got married to each in the District of Columbia (DC) in June of 1958. The main reason this couple got married in DC, was because of the Virginia’s Racial Integrity

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    In 1967, the Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights decision in the case Loving v. Virginia by invalidating laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The conflict over race in marriage had been challenged by Richard and Mildred Loving who were married in 1958 in the District of Columbia. The Lovings refused to compromise by separating or divorcing, even after they were arrested and forced to leave the state of Virginia. The landmark civil rights decision helped to weave a path toward the legalization

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    Loving Turning Points

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    movie Loving is about the famous Supreme Court case that resulted in the end of the last of the United States’ segregation laws and the family involved in the case. The movie follows two main characters, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter. These two are the main characters because in the 1960s these two were married and sparked the entire case that this movie is about. Throughout the movie there are three major turning points that I noticed, the first of which being when Mildred tells Richard that she’s

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