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“Mildred Jeter helped change America….Mildred had married the man she loved, Richard. One night, as they slept, armed agents of the state burst into their home. They surrounded the couple and began the interrogation….”
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“Mildred Loving (1939 — May 2, 2008) filed and won a landmark U.S. court appeal in defense of her own interracial marriage that became the legal standard used to eradicate laws against mixed marriage across the country.”
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“Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68.”
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“Loving v. Virginia … was a landmark civil rights case in which the [U.S.] Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute … unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage.”
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“The [14th Amendment] requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by [racial discrimination]. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry … a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state.”
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“Americans need to read [Mildred Loving's] statement and see how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go to protect liberty and equality in this country.”
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