The Loving Case Summary

The Loving case was based off of Richard and Mildred Loving’s marriage. Richard Perry Loving, a white construction worker, was born on October 29, 1933 in Central Point, Caroline County. Mildred Dolores Jeter, a mixed African American and Indian woman, was born on July 22, 1939 who was also born in Central Point, Caroline County. In the state of Virginia, the location in which they both had lived, there was a law called the Racial Integrity Act (“American...”). The Act restricted anyone of the opposite race to marry one another. According to Phyl Newbeck and Brendan Wolfe, Mildred and Richard when out of state to Washington D.C. to escape the marital restrictions back in Virginia. They were legally married on June 2, 1958. The couple lived