Loving V. Virginia Case Study

Seventeen-year-old Mildred Jeter, who was African-Indian, and her childhood sweetheart, twenty-three-year-old white construction worker, Richard Loving were against Virginia's miscegenation laws banning marriage between blacks and whites. During 1924, interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. The Racial Integrity Laws were designed in the South meaning that the white race and its purity was protected from racial mixtures. Mildred and Richard married on June 2, 1958, in Washington, D.C. After they returned to their hometown, Caroline County, they were arrested and charged with unlawful cohabitation. The couple was sued and imprison of violating the state's anti-miscegenation law. The punishment was a one year in jail or The court suspended the sentences, “a period of twenty-five years upon the provision that both accused leave Caroline County and the state of Virginia at once and do not return together or at the same time to said county and state for a period of twenty-five years."
The Lovings left their hometown to live in Washington D.C. Mildred, who was missing her home couldn’t hold back anymore so she wrote to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for help. The couple was referred to the Supreme Court with the case called Loving v. Virginia in 1967. They successfully defeated Virginia's ban on

interracial marriage. The Lovings then lived as a legal, married couple in Virginia until Richard died in 1975 and Mildred passed away in 2008.
This fearless couple, the Lovings, deserve a memorial because of this landmark case, Loving v.

Virginia, eternally changed the laws of the U.S and the lives of its citizens. In 1967, sixteen states had laws against interracial marriage. the Lovings inspired mixed race couples to seek out and bring their importance to the history. It analyses the miscegenation crime Mildred and Richard were accused of doing. They gave the right for interracial couples to be together, the freedom to love and etc. These laws did not only affect black people and white people but many states also limited relationships with Asians, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics and other

races.
The reason why Barack Obama, our now former president is alive, is because of the Loving case. Obama was born in 1961, and the Loving case was resolved in 1967, but the Lovings were married in 1958 in Washington, D.C. His mother was white while his father was black so Lovings made it possible for families like that to start a family. Thanks to the certain raise in interracial marriages in last few years, Multiracial Americans like President Obama and Ben Jealous now establish the strong-growing population in the U.S. The percentage of 3.2 percent of U.S. marriages increased to to 8.4 percent today.
A gay rights group, visited Mildred, hoping to convince her to make a comment in favor of gay marriage at a celebration of her own court ruling that the group planned to hold in Washington. Loving told the group that she would let them read a statement in her name supporting gay marriage at the commemoration. She also said, “I understand it, and I believe it.” about the idea of “putting her name behind the idea that two men or two women should have the right to marry each other.” Before Mildred Loving died she wrote, "I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about." Mildred Loving was a big influence for gay marriage because she gave an important message to the world.
This married couple went through a lot of life-changing experiences such as feeling the humiliation of spending five nights in a rat-infested jail and being away, homesick, wishing they were in their hometown without any problems. Even though they had an ordinary life, they changed this world in a special way.