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We are not marrying the state. These were the words that Mildred Jeter Loving told The Washington Evening Star in 1965. At that time she was in exile of her native state, Virginia, which had convicted her of the crime of marrying the man she loved, Richard Loving, seven years prior. On June 12, 1967 [...]

Mildred Loving, the black woman who along with her white husband Richard Loving, challenged the ban on interracial marriages in Virginia, passed away last Friday according to her daughter. 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 [...]