Loving Day!!

[arthursimone]

Today is Loving Day: A celebration of the legalization of inter-racial marriage in America. Until this time, in 1967, it was not legal for whites in the U.S to marry a non-white.

Mildred and Richard Loving were an inter-racial couple who were denied their residency in Virgina because of their marriage. The case was brought to the Supreme Court where the two plead guilty but due to this fight, changed the anti-miscegenation statue in the U.S which now allows all of us, all citizens, to marry anyone outside of our race.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving first met when she was 11 and he was 17. He was a family friend and over the years they started courting. They lived just north of Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where interracial marriage was banned by a 1924 statute. When Mildred was 18 she became pregnant, and the couple decided to marry, traveling out of Virginia to do so. Mildred later stated that she did not know it was illegal when they got married in 1958, but she believed her husband did.[1] They returned to Virginia and were arrested in the middle of the night by the county sheriff, who had received an anonymous tip.[2] They moved to Washington DC after pleading guilty to being married and being banned from living together in their home state, but returned to Virginia after the Supreme Court decision.

http://www.lovingday.org/ has a lot of great info on the case, the holiday, and events around the country.

[BriHo]

I always thought it wasn't illegal on a federal level, just in the individual states. I guess this explains why the 10th Ammendment wasn't invoked, which is cool, since the only time the 10th (best) ammendment is brought up, its to defend really shitty state laws.

Cool stuff.