Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1(1967),[X 1] [X 2] is a landmark civil rightsdecision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginiafor marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenationstatute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". The Supreme Court's unanimous decision determined that this prohibition was unconstitutional, overruling Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.
The decision was followed by an increase in interracial marriages in the U.S., and is remembered annually on Loving Day, June 12. It has been the subject of three movies and several songs. Beginning in 2013, it was cited as precedent in U.S. federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United Statesunconstitutional, including in the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges.
Mildred and Richard Loving
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