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Article: LOVING OVERCOMES THE LAW IN REAL-LIFE DRAMA.(DAILY BREAK)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 30, 1996
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Byline: Larry Bonko
WHEN HE FIRST met Richard and Mildred Loving in 1962, and heard how they'd been run out of Virginia, attorney Bernard S. Cohen made an emotional little speech at the kitchen table in the couple's Washington, D.C., apartment.
``What they did to you, they cannot do,'' he said. ``The state law that prohibits interracial marriages is the last chain from the slave days. It cannot stand the test. The law will go down.''
And so it did.
Three years and eight months after Cohen, a young Alexandria lawyer volunteering for the American Civil Liberties Union, expressed his outrage, the Virginia law that prohibited interracial marriage was struck down ...
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