This Week in Virginia History

Week of June 1: A marriage changed U.S. law


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This week in 1958... It was a classic love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They get married. But in this story, the girl was Mildred Jeter, a Black woman. And her new husband was a white man named Richard Loving. This was in highly segregated Caroline County and interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia.

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This Week in Virginia HistoryBy Virginia Audio Collective

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