Mildred Loving

Remembering Mildred Loving

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

Loving, who was black, and her late husband, who was white, made history when their struggle to have their marriage recognized led to the landmark ruling overturning laws banning interracial marriage.

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Mildred Loving: the Accidental Activist

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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Arlene M. Roberts

As a first year law student, I was introduced to Mildred Loving by way of Loving v. Virginia, a case that appeared in my Constitutional Law casebook. ...

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Loving, Revisited

Roy Ulrich | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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Roy Ulrich

During the last term and continuing into this year's term, the Court has begun to pull the plug on the basic idea of equal opportunity for all.

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Mildred Loving--Trailblazer

Byron Williams | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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Byron Williams

The passing of Mildred Loving along with the 41 years since her landmark case was decided reminds us that we still have yet to reach marriage equality in this society.

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Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies

AP | DIONNE WALKER | Posted 05.05.2008 | Living

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RICHMOND, Va. — Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling s...

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