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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"On January 6, 1959, Richard and Mildred Loving were convicted of interracial marriage, given a one-year suspended sentence, and banished from the state of Virginia...
After marrying in Washington, D.C., in 1958, the Lovings returned to their native Caroline County, Virginia, to build a home and start a family. Their union was a criminal act in Virginia because... the state's Racial Integrity Act, passed in 1924, criminalized interracial marriage."