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June 12, 1967, is the day Americans finally became free to marry whom they wanted regardless of race, origin, or faith due to the landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Loving vs. Virginia. Previous interracial marriage laws were now void.
Mildred Loving, a black woman, married Richard Perry Loving, a white man. In Virginia, such union was deemed criminal due to the anti-miscegenation statute (that a white person cannot marry a black person) of the said state, resulting in Richard Loving spending a year in prison. The couple was married in Washington DC to avoid the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. However, the couple returned to Central Point, Virginia, where the police raided their home while the Lovings were sleeping.
In the initial trial, Leon M. Bazile reiterated the 18th-century meaning of race. On January 6. 1959, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty. A 25-year sentence was suspended on the condition that the couple leaves Virginia.
In 1964, the Lovings wrote to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who forwarded their case to ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). The civil rights group filed a brief stating the statutes were counter to the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1967, the US Supreme Court found that the previous conviction was invalid and discriminatory due to the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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