The love story of Richard and Mildred Loving was one that ended up benefiting interracial couples that came after them because it wiped away the last bit of segregation inspired by racism.
Love is a powerful emotion, and over the past couple of centuries, it has driven both men and women alike to do things they would never have done otherwise — for instance, standing up to a state’s judicial system.
Still, that’s what Richard and Mildred Loving did when they ran into trouble for getting married. This is their story.
ARRESTED FOR GETTING MARRIED
Richard and Mildred met each other very early in their lives, at ages 17 and 11, respectively; however, nothing happened between them for years.
They grew up some miles apart from one another in a relatively interracial community where the white people mixed with black people, working and sometimes dating.
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