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    Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, were indicted in 1958 for violating Virginia's law banning interracial marriage after they were married in Washington D.C. and returned home to Virginia. They were sentenced to one year in jail, suspended if they left the state for 25 years. The Lovings appealed their conviction, arguing the law violated their equal protection and due process rights. In 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that laws banning interracial marriage are unconstitutional, violating equal protection. The decision overturned the Lovings' conviction and struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924.

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    Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, were indicted in 1958 for violating Virginia's law banning interracial marriage after they were married in Washington D.C. and returned home to Virginia. They were sentenced to one year in jail, suspended if they left the state for 25 years. The Lovings appealed their conviction, arguing the law violated their equal protection and due process rights. In 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that laws banning interracial marriage are unconstitutional, violating equal protection. The decision overturned the Lovings' conviction and struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924.

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    Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, were indicted in 1958 for violating Virginia's law banning interracial marriage after they were married in Washington D.C. and returned home to Virginia. They were sentenced to one year in jail, suspended if they left the state for 25 years. The Lovings appealed their conviction, arguing the law violated their equal protection and due process rights. In 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that laws banning interracial marriage are unconstitutional, violating equal protection. The decision overturned the Lovings' conviction and struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924.

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    Loving V Virginia Bill of Rights Inst

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    Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, were indicted in 1958 for violating Virginia's law banning interracial marriage after they were married in Washington D.C. and returned home to Virginia. They were sentenced to one year in jail, suspended if they left the state for 25 years. The Lovings appealed their conviction, arguing the law violated their equal protection and due process rights. In 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that laws banning interracial marriage are unconstitutional, violating equal protection. The decision overturned the Lovings' conviction and struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924.

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    Loving v Virginia (1967)

    We spotlight the landmark Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia


    (1967), which declared anti-miscegenation laws (laws banning
    interracial marriages) to be unconstitutional. The Court unanimously
    held that prohibiting and punishing marriage based on racial
    qualifications violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of
    the Fourteenth Amendment.

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    Mildred Jeter and her new husband, Richard Loving, returned to their
    home in Caroline County, Virginia. The newlyweds had recently taken
    their vows in nearby Washington, D.C. and were happy to begin their
    new life together as married couple. But there was a big obstacle to
    their marital bliss. The year was 1958, and Virginia was one of sixteen
    states that prohibited and punished interracial marriages. Mildred was
    African American and her husband Richard was Caucasian. Four
    months into their married life they were indicted by a grand jury.
    The following January, the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and
    were sentenced to one year in jail. The trial judge agreed to suspend
    the sentence if the Lovings would leave the state for twenty-five years.
    The judge told Mr. and Mrs. Loving: Almighty God created the races
    and he placed them on separate continents. The fact he separated

    the races shows that He did not intend for the races to mix.
    The Lovings moved to Washington, D.C. and appealed their conviction
    on the grounds that Virginia law, The Racial Integrity Law of 1924,
    violated their rights to equal protection of the law and due process
    under the Fourteenth Amendment.
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to overturn their conviction and
    strike down the Virginia law. The Court held, There can be no doubt
    that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial
    classifications violates the central meaning of the Equal Protection
    Clause. The Court also found that the Virginia law deprived the
    Lovings of liberty without due process of law. The freedom to marry
    has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential
    to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. To deny this
    fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial
    classifications is surely to deprive all the States citizens of liberty
    without due process of law.
    Questions
    1

    Why were the Lovings indicted and sentenced to a year in prison?

    Why did the Supreme Court find the Virginias Racial Integrity Act of
    1924 unconstitutional?

    James Madison, called Father of the Constitution asserted that


    Conscience is the most sacred property. The Court held in Loving v.
    Virginia (1967) that Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or

    not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and
    cannot be infringed by the State. How does the Loving v. Virginia
    decision support freedom of conscience?
    4

    What relevance (if any) might Loving v. Virginia have to the current
    debate about gay marriage?

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