Miltred Dolores Jeter was born on July 22, 1939 in Central point, Virginia. She was of African-American, European, and Native American descent. Mildred Loving, who was a reluctant activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s when she and her husband Richard loving, successfully challenged Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. In marrying, the couple violated Virginia’s racial integrity act. After they were ordered to leave the state, Mildred contacted them attorney general Robert Kennedy, who suggested she contact the ACLU. Following the case Loving versus Virginia, the Supreme Court struck down the Virginia law in 1967, also ending the remaining ban on interracial marriages in other states. The Lovings lived as a legal married couple in Virginia until Richard’s death in 1975.