Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.
Loving v. Virginia | 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
Loving v. Virginia: A unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races, holding that these anti-miscegenation ...
Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage ...
Loving v. Virginia: 1967 & Supreme Court Case | HISTORY
Loving v. Virginia was a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States.
Loving v. Virginia (1967) - The National Constitution Center
The Court held that the Virginia law violated the Fourteenth Amendment because of the law's clear purpose to create a race-based restriction.
Loving v. Commonwealth :: 1966 :: Supreme Court of Virginia ...
Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Loving, a colored woman, were convicted in 1959 of violating Code 1950, section 20-58.
Richard Perry LOVING et ux., Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH OF ...
This case presents a constitutional question never addressed by this Court: whether a statutory scheme adopted by the State of Virginia to prevent marriages
Loving v. Virginia | Summary, Date, Ruling, Facts, & Significance
Loving v. Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state ...
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958–1966 - Online Classroom
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958–1966. The landmark Supreme Court Case Loving, v. Virginia ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the ...
Case: Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Case Summary. In this landmark civil rights case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state statutes banning interracial marriage violated the ...
Loving v. Virginia Case Summary - Supreme Court - FindLaw
In 1967, the US Supreme Court unanimously decided in Loving v. Virginia that laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
The Lovings | Caroline County VA
The Loving v. Virginia case was then brought to the US Supreme Court on April 10, 1967. The US Supreme Court voted unanimously in favor of Lovings on June ...
Looking back on Loving v. Virginia 52 years later
Today, June 12, 2019, is the 52nd anniversary of one of the most important cases in ACLU (and the nation's) history: Loving v. Virginia, 388 ...
Loving v. Virginia | Case Brief for Law Students | Casebriefs
Loving v. Virginia Case Brief - Rule of Law: Restricting the freedom to marry solely on the basis of race violates the central meaning of the Equal ...
Loving v. Virginia - Women & the American Story
On June 2, 1958, high school sweethearts Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter of Virginia drove to Washington, DC, to marry.
Excerpts from a Transcript of Oral Arguments in Loving v. Virginia ...
Virginia, presented to the U.S. Supreme Court on April 10, 1967, Bernard S. Cohen and Philip J. Hirschkop speak for the appellants and Assistant Attorney ...
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967): Case Brief Summary | Quimbee
In the present case, the Commonwealth of Virginia seeks to uphold its interracial marriage ban on the grounds that it furthers a legitimate state purpose of ...
Loving v. Virginia Case Brief Summary - YouTube
... Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Loving were thrown in jail for getting married—an act prohibited in Virginia, all because the Lovings ...
The Crime of Being Married, Life Magazine, March 18, 1966
The Loving v. Virginia case ended a long history of banning marriage between white and Black Virginians dating back to the 17th century.
In Loving v. Virginia, decided on June 12, 1967, the US Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia's law prohibiting interracial marriages.