Loving v. Virginia in 1967. In that case, a white man and a black woman appealed Virginia’s rejection of their marriage all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled (shout-out to the ACLU) that so-called anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. Wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren, “Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the state.” It was a great day for black-white love, but here’s a little perspective on that victory: black people had received both their civil and voting rights before
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