Loving Vs Virginia Essay

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The right to love was granted to the Loving’s on June 12th,1967. In the case,
Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia's law prohibiting interracial marriages was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. This historical landmark case did not come easily. The couple was arrested, tried, found guilty, expelled from their hometown and state, and finally took their plea to the Supreme Court. This well fought battle brought the right of interracial love to all fifty states and the Loving’s.
On June 2, 1958, two residents of Virginia, Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his childhood sweetheart, Mildred Delores Jeter, part African American and part
Indian, were married in Washington D.C. Richard Loving, only twenty-three …show more content…
Virginia on April 10,
1967 (Facts about the Case, Par. 18). On behalf of the commonwealth of Virginia,
Assistant Attorney General R. D. Mcllwaine argued that the great state of Virginia law did not disregard the Fourteenth Amendment, and that even if it did it would be legal on the fact that it protected the state from “sociological [and] psychological evils which attend interracial marriages” (Facts about the Case, Par. 18).
In favor of the Lovings, Hirschkop argued that Virginia law did in fact violated the
Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of equal protection under the law by revoking potential spouses and their children their civil rights directly because of race (Facts about the Case, Par. 19). “These are slavery laws, pure and simple,” uttered Hirschkop
(Facts about the Case, Par. 19). In mention to the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity,
Hirschkop also said that Virginia was “not concerned with racial integrity of the Negro race, only the white race” (Facts about the Case, Par. 19).
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The Judiciary Supreme Court ruled unanimously on June 12, 1967, in favor of
Richard and Mildred Loving. The case lasted about two months and was a very tedious process for the Lovings and all who were involved. In his opinion, Chief Justice
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