Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving

Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving
by Phyl Newbeck
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This landmark volume chronicles the history of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States with particular emphasis on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia of the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s. The Lovings were not activists, but their battle to live together as husband and wife in their home state instigated the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that antimiscegenation laws were unconstitutional, which ultimately resulted in the overturning of laws against interracial marriage that were still in effect in sixteen states by the late 1960s.

 

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #539599 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 332 pages

Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History

Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History
by Peter Wallenstein
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The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #884532 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .85" h x 6.20" w x 9.12" l, .82 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages