Two people by the name of Mildred and Richard loving overcame the state of Virginia and fought for their interracial marriage. Richard was English and Irish and Mildred was African American. In the state of Virginia by the two dating it was violating Virginias Racial Integrity Act. The two was forced to leave Virginia and eventually their case was handled by the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1967 the U.S Supreme Court stopped the law and it ended people from not being able to be in interracial marriages.
Even though Richard knew that him and his wife wasn’t going to get a marriage license in the state of Virginia they traveled to Washington D.C to get married then returned to Virginia after. When they finally returned to Virginia they both were arrested because they had violated the law that prohibited interracial marriages. In 1959 the two accepted a plea from the judge. The deal was that their marriage wouldn’t get suspended if they left the state of Virginia and they couldn’t return with each other or at the same time for 25 years.
The couple knew that they couldn’t stay away from Virginia that long so the couple took their case to the Supreme Court which was the highest bench ever. The Supreme Court struck down the law of interracial marriage and the Loving’s were able to move back to Virginia. Being in todays society whoever is in a interracial marriage should be thankful for what Mildred and Richard loving did because they stood for what they believed in and did whatever it took to stay a married couple even when people told them the best for the both of them would be to get a divorce. By them fighting for what they believed in the law for interracial marriages was finally legal in the U.S.
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