Thursday, May 8, 2008

BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: MILDRED LOVING


Mildred Loving (1939-2008), along with her husband, Richard, changed the United States miscegenation laws by taking the state of Virginia to court and the Supreme Court ruling that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional.
Loving died recently, and daughter, Peggy Fortune, wants people to remember her as being strong, brave, humble and someone who believed in love. She was 68.

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