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Loving v. Virginia

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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The case involved Mildred Loving, a woman of color, and her white husband Richard Loving, who in 1958 were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Their marriage violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". The Lovings appealed their conviction to the Supreme Court of Virginia, which upheld it. They then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear their case.

Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case on interracial marriage 1967 United States Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 10, 1967 Decided June 12, 1967 Full case name Richard Perry Loving, Mildred (Jeter) Loving v. Virginia Citations 388 U.S. 1 ( more ) 87 S. Ct. 1817; 18 L. Ed. 2d 1010; 1967 U.S. LEXIS 1082 Argument Oral argument Case history Prior Defendants convicted, Caroline County Circuit Court (January 6, 1959); motion to vacate judgment denied, Caroline County Circu

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