What is National Loving Day?
Each year, National Loving Day on June 12th commemorates the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia. All anti-miscegenation laws that were unveiled in sixteen U.S. states were struck down by this decision. There can be no doubt that banning marriage solely because of racial groups in violation of the equal protection clause, the judge said. In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were established as part of state legislation prohibiting interracial marriage.
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Mildred and Richard, her childhood friends, met when she was 11, and he was 17. He was 17. They began courting over the years. The couple married in Washington and returned to Richmond, north of Richmond, in 1958, when Mildred turned 18. However, the couple were arrested two weeks later by police two weeks later. Mildred and Richard did not know that Virginia considered interracial marriage unlawful until the state of Virginia. The Lovings pleaded guilty, and to avoid prison time, they agreed to leave Virginia, but not in jail.
The Lovings began taking legal action by writing to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy while living in Washington, D.C., while living in Washington, D.C.. The matter was submitted to the American Civil Liberties Union by Kennedy, who referred it to the American Civil Liberties Union. The Warren Court ruled in their favor unanimously, and the Lovings returned to their Virginia home, where they lived with their three children.
