Positive Liberty » Mildred Loving's Statement
On the 40th anniversary of the ruling in Loving v Virginia, Mildred Loving has released a public statement that really must be read. I'm going to post the full text below the fold and encourage others to distribute it far and wide, ...

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In 1958, Mildred Loving and her husband Richard Loving were in bed in their home in Virginia when police arrested them. The Lovings had married in Washington, D.C., five weeks earlier. Since Richard was White while Mildred was African ...

Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies
Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving are shown in this January 26, 1965 file photograph, Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling, ...

Gluten Free Thankfulness and a Cranberry-Mango Chutney
Their names are Richard and Mildred Loving. In 1958, Mildred and Richard were married. One night the police broke down the door of their home and broke in to their bedroom. Mildred and Richard pointed to the marriage license on the wall ...

Mikko Alanne: With Prop 8, Loving Should Be Everyone's Guide
Mildred Loving passed away this summer. While she was never a political or public person, she did, in June 2007, issue a rare, poignant statement for the 40th anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision. In it, she affirmed her belief ...

mildred and richard loving: the history
mildred loving was 67 years old when she wrote the statement below. she died, a year later, on may2, 2008. ironically, mildred jeter loving was part rappahannock indian and part cherokee as well as black. her husband, richard loving, ...

Defense of Marriage, 1959 Edition
“My generation was bitterly divided over something that should have been so clear and right,” Mildred Loving said last year on the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision. “I believe all Americans, no matter their race, ...

Who is to Blame For Proposition 8?
Sadly, neither Richard or Mildred Loving lived to see this historic moment, though Mildred, who passed away earlier this year, knew how far we still had to go. Last year, on June 12th, the anniversary of the historic Supreme Court ...

Civil Rights
In June of 1958, in the District of Columbia, Mildred Loving, a woman of African and Native American descent, married Richard Loving, a Caucasian. On their return to their home in Virginia, they were charged under Virginia's ...

The Loving Decision
Mildred Loving, mother and grandmother, who once had cops burst into her bedroom because she was sleeping with her own husband, was quoted in a rare public statement saying she believed all Americans, “no matter their race, ...