Before June of 1967, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage, including Virginia, the home of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African-American and Native-American descent. Nine years prior, in June 1958, the couple traveled to Washington, D.C. - where interracial marriage was legal - to get married. […]
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