#myLovingDay: How the Lovings’ trials paved the way for today’s multiracial families |
#myLovingDay: How the Lovings’ trials paved the way for today’s multiracial families
The Los Angeles Times
2016-06-03
Michelle Maltais
Mildred and Richard Loving, convicted in Virginia of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press) |
I like to say that I am because of Loving. Mildred and Richard Loving.
In the early 1970s when my parents met, the only laws that really mattered in their relationship were the laws of attraction. But in 1958 when Mildred and Richard married, interracial marriage wasn’t just complicated, it was illegal. Since they couldn’t get married in their home state of Virginia (or 24 other states), they went to the District of Columbia and were wed on June 2, 1958…
…My own “Loving” story started in the early ’70s in Palm Desert, Calif. At that time, no one else in my neighborhood — or in my school — looked like me. No one’s family looked like mine.
Was California in the early 1970s anything like the South of the ‘50s and ‘60s? Not at all…
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