55 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled their interracial marriage was legal
A century after the end of the Civil War, more than a dozen states still had laws on the books banning interracial marriage. Enter Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose June 12, 1967, Supreme Court ruling dealt a major blow to miscegenation laws. The couple married in 1958 in Washington -- where interracial marriage was legal -- then moved to their home in Central Point, Virginia.
Mildred wrote to the US attorney general -- a man by the name of Robert Kennedy -- for help, and he referred her to the ACLU. The case's path to the Supreme Court was an interesting one, however, since the couple had said they were guilty and had no right to an appeal. The case found itself in the Virginia Supreme Court before landing in Washington. The most vital question at stake was whether or not Virginia's laws violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
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