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Article: Love reigned Supreme in 1967; Court tossed out bans on black-white marriages
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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MILFORD, Va. -- Reporters no longer beat a path to the house just
over the Caroline County border -- and that's fine with its owner, a
soft-spoken 67-year-old who never wanted the fame her marriage
brought her.
Born Mildred Jeter, she's known mostly by the name she took when
she -- a black woman living in segregated Virginia -- dared break
the rules by marrying a white man named Richard Loving.
The union landed the Lovings in jail, and then before the U.S.
Supreme Court, and finally in the history books; 40 years ago
Tuesday, the court ruled in favor of the couple, overturning laws
prohibiting interracial unions and changing the face of America.