The Liberty Papers (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
A victory for personal freedom, 41 years ago today: On this date in 1967, the US Supreme Court decided the case of Loving v. Virginia, striking down Virginia’s anti-misegenation statute. Mildred Loving passed away on May 2 of this year, promting a flurry of moving obituaries. As John Ridley noted on NPR’s morning edition, Barak Obama [...]
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
A victory for personal freedom, 41 years ago today: On this date in 1967, the US Supreme Court decided the case of Loving v. Virginia, striking down Virginia’s anti-misegenation statute. Mildred Loving passed away on May 2 of this year, promting a flurry of moving obituaries. As John Ridley noted on NPR’s morning edition, Barak Obama [...]
Liberty Alone (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
41 one years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the state of Viriginia in the case of Loving v. Virginia over turning all US race-based legal restrictions on marriage. Mildred Loving died earlier this year, but the legacy of her love for for her husband and her battle to let it [...]
Jesurgislac's Journal (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
George Takei on human marriage: The California Supreme Court has ruled that all Californians have a fundamental right to marry the person he or she loves. Brad and I have shared our lives together for over 21 years. We’ve worked in partnership; he manages the business side of my career and I do the performing. We’ve [...]
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
THE judge said the man shouldn't have married the woman because God put black people on one continent and white people on another.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
THE judge said the man shouldn't have married the woman because God put black people on one continent and white people on another.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Born in rural Virginia in 1939, Mildred Jeter married her teenage sweetheart, Richard Loving, in 1958. The pretty, confident Mildred had almost finished high school. The rather rugged, shy Richard was a bricklayer. Mildred was pregnant, so it was a somewhat hasty marriage. The young couple drove 80 miles to Washington, returned home with a marriage licence and settled down...
Mirth, Musings, & More (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Last month a woman by the name of Mildred Loving died in Richmond, Virginia. She wasn't particularly famous, though she did an absolutely amazing thing in 1958: She got married. What's the big deal about that, you ask? Well, Mildred was black, and she married ( GASP!!!! ) a white man . Such a thing just wasn't legal in Virginia, even in the second half of the 20th century. She...
Effect Measure (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Recently we noted the passing of Mildred Loving, whose Supreme Court case in the 1960s struck down the nation's anti-miscegenation laws. Mildred was black. Her husband Richard was white. It seems like such a distant event, although I was already in medical school when it happened. What hasn't died, yet, is irony (despite the Bush administration's valiant effort to snuff it out)....
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
... society and championed her strong belief in civil rights. Another pioneer of civil rights was Mildred Loving, whose landmark legal case challenged the laws against interracial marriage in the United States. The Lovings challenged racist US lawsOf African and Native American descent, Mildred married a white man, Richard Loving in 1958 but, on their return home...
The G Bitch Spot (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
... Henderson, Who Aided Desegregation, Dies at 88 Thank you, Mrs. Henderson. And earlier this month, Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68 By their own widely reported accounts, Mrs. Loving and her husband, Richard, were in bed in their modest house in Central Point in the early morning of July 11, 1958, five weeks after their wedding, when the county...
Framed (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
... Warren Zevon for ya Real markins Many troops home for McCain's centennial California legalizes love How uncomfortable you make me feel with your words and what you say Imprisoning and drugging the aliens A good school debases itself News bulletin: some people are racist Obama hits back; McCain feigns outrage There is no other word for a regime that starves its own people Tom Leher, for Democrats...
Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
... dating? Save the Last Dance ? Sorry, I only watched it for the last five minute dance scene. Mildred Loving died very recently . California just ruled against the ban on same-sex marriage . I'd like to think that we're in a post-____ (fill in the blank) world and one in which identity politics and essentialism don't transform every personal choice into a political debate, but very...
Framed (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
... Warren Zevon for ya Real markins Many troops home for McCain's centennial California legalizes love How uncomfortable you make me feel with your words and what you say Imprisoning and drugging the aliens A good school debases itself News bulletin: some people are racist Obama hits back; McCain feigns outrage There is no other word for a regime that starves its own people Tom Leher, for Democrats...
Framed (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
... Warren Zevon for ya Real markins Many troops home for McCain's centennial California legalizes love How uncomfortable you make me feel with your words and what you say Imprisoning and drugging the aliens A good school debases itself News bulletin: some people are racist Obama hits back; McCain feigns outrage There is no other word for a regime that starves its own people Tom Leher, for Democrats...
