Precis of the case:
Richard Loving , a white resident of Virginia, married a Negro woman from the same state in June 1958. They were indicted, convicted, and sentenced to one year imprisonment for violating state statutes which prohibited interracial marriages. The sentence was suspended on the condition that the Lovings leave the state for 25 years. They moved to the District of Columbia and several years later, brought action in a Virginia court challenging the constitutionality of the state's antimiscengenation statutes. The tiral judge refused to vacate the sentences and the state's highest court affirmed the convictions. Loving appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Warren writing for the majority said " There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of the racial classifications violates the central meaning of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution..."
Charles Brown
>>> jf noonan <jfn1 at msc.com> 04/15/99 03:07PM >>>
Does anybody know when and where the last anti-miscegenation laws were repealed or struck down my the courts in the US? I seem to recall a US S.C. case from the late 60's that struck down Virginia's law, but am not very clear on that anymore.
Thx,
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