Loving Vs. Virginia Supreme Court Case Study

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Loving Vs. Virginia
The supreme court case of Loving Vs. Virginia came to fruition when interracial couple – 17-year-old Mildred Jeter, who was black, and her childhood sweetheart, 23-year-old white construction worker, Richard Loving – married in Washington, D.C. and returned to Virginia in 1958, the couple was charged under Virginia's "miscegenation" laws banning marriage between blacks and whites. They were found guilty on January 6, 1959, and were sentenced to one year in prison, the sentence was suspended for 25 years with the condition that the couple would leave the state of Virginia. They did leave moving to Washington D.C. In 1964, the Lovings frustrated by not being able to travel together to visit family in Virginia, Mildred