Sometimes, people challenge the LGBT movement for drawing comparisons with the civil rights advances of other movements," said [Jon Davidson]. "It's important to have people at the center of such movements to say...they're related (issues). She saw part of what she was fighting for was related to" (the same-sex marriage struggle).
Mr. and Mrs. [Mildred Loving] soon returned to their hometown with their three children, although their own happiness ended in tragedy just a few years later. In 1975, Mr. Loving was killed and Mrs. Loving lost the sight in one eye in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. But the Lovings had paved the way for thousands of other couples like themselves, who weren't marrying "outside of their race" but were marrying the people they loved. Thanks to God's work and the Lovings' love, my husband Peter and I were the first interracial couple to be married in Virginia after the Supreme Court decision-40 years ago-in July 1968. - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
For marrying the only man she ever loved, Mildred Loving paid a price: She was arrested, convicted and banished from her home state. In the 1950s, the Commonwealth of Virginia handed down such punishments to couples whose love the state did not sanction: She was black. Her husband, Richard, was white. Their union was prohibited by law.
Storybooks would have us believe that love can conquer all. In the case of and her husband, theirs did. In 1958, the Lovings - Mildred was black, Richard white - were arrested in their bed for breaking Virginia's law forbidding interracial marriage. They were convicted of that felony charge and banished from the commonwealth.
Mildred Jeter Loving, 68, a black woman whose refusal to accept Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967 that struck down similar laws across the country, died of pneumonia Friday at her home in Milford, Va. The Loving vs. Virginia decision overturned long-standing legal and social prohibitions against miscegenation in the United States. Celebrated at the time, the landmark case sunk to obscurity until a 1996 made-for-television movie and a 2004 book revived interest in how the young, small-town black and white couple changed history.
RICHMOND, Va. - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose chal- lenge to Virginia law banning in- terracial marriage ultimately dismantled anti-miscegenation laws nationwide, has died.
Mildred O. Ebert, 89, of Hegins, was taken home to Heaven to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Monday, June 20, 2011. She was the daughter of the late Henry and Bertha Oswald Furman. She was a textile worker at Gold Mills in Pine Grove.
To: OBITUARY EDITORS Contact: Chip Alfred, Communications Director of Equality Forum, +1-215-732-3378, ext. 116, chip@equalityforum.com
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died. She was 68. Loving died Friday at her home in rural Milford, her daughter said. She did not disclose the cause of death.
NORMAN WHITFIELD - Songwriter and producer best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown during the 60s. His hits included "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Just My Imagination," "War," "Car Wash" and "Cloud Nine." He was an integral part of Motown's "hit factory" as well as one of the major figures in the sub-genre of psychedelic soul He was 67/68 (9/16) (2/26) KATOUCHA NIANA - First African woman to pin international stardom as a model (2/?) HENRIETTA BELL WELLS - The first Black woman on the debate team that was portrayed in "The Great Debaters." MILDRED LOVING-She was the plaintiff in a landmark case; Loving v Virginia where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the state of Virginia that its anti-miscegenation laws war racist and had been enacted to perpetuate white supremacy.
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