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The Right to Love: Loving v. Virginia and the American Civil Liberties Union
The film Loving, based on the Loving v. Virginia case, is now in expanded release in U.S. theaters. When Mildred and Richard Loving were married in June 1958, twenty-four states still had anti-miscegenation laws. For this reason, Mildred, a black woman who was also of Rappahannock and Cherokee Indian descent, and Richard, a white man, were…
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