The case was eventually heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 as Loving v. Virginia. The court ruled that laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional, and that “the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state.” The couple always saw the issue as very straightforward. “Tell the Court I love my wife and it is just not fair that I cannot live with her in Virginia,” Richard Loving wrote to the ACLU lawyers.
