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Jack and Jill Politics: Mildred Loving Has Passed Away

  • Black Art Depot · 1 year ago
    Amazing. I can say that I encourage interracial marriages but most definitely everyone should have the right to marry the one they love regardless of race. 1967....damn, this law was still on the books then. ..wow. Thanks for the information!
  • Ronnie B · 1 year ago
    Thank you, Mrs. Loving, for standing up. You and your husband's couraged showed society that love can't be bound by race ... or racism.
  • N. Mahana · 1 year ago
    Mildred and her husband were very brave. My condolences to her family.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    Shoot, where can you find a man like that? These days they run at the slightest sign of "inconvenience"! LOL!
  • Vanessa · 1 year ago
    These laws were still on the books when Sen. Obama's mother and father married, too.
  • freespiritbeautee · 1 year ago
    The Lovings were brave for there time. Very inspiring. May they both rest in peace together in eternity. I read the story to my fiancee and he was inspired to watch their story.
  • Nadra · 1 year ago
    Yes, they were brave and strong-willed. I watched the biopic about them years ago, starring Lela Rochon, but isn't it kind of porblematic that she started "courting" him at age 11?
  • Sepia · 1 year ago
    Please tell me this is a typo, because this sounds very disturbing to me:


    "Mildred Jeter was 11 when she and 17-year-old Richard began courting, according to Phyl Newbeck, a Vermont author who detailed the case in the 2004 book, ''Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers.''"