Supreme Court Case Loving v. Virginia
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Supreme Court Cases Makessia T. Ealey
April 28, 2013
Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court Case Nearly 46 years ago a case was decided by a unanimous Supreme Court that invalidated all laws that prohibited interracial marriages throughout the nation. All in all, the legalization of interracial marriage remains a influential moment in the civil rights movement. In June 1967, the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case ruling would not only change the lives of Richard and Mildred Loving, but would forever impact the nation as a whole. Richard and Mildred Loving were married in Washington D.C. in 1958. Because their home state of Virginia still upheld laws such as the anti-miscegenation law, which stated that interracial marriages were illegal, the couple was forced to marry...