Loving v. Virginia and the Secret History of Race - New York Times

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Loving v. Virginia and the Secret History of Race - New York Times

Central Point, Va., and the Supreme Court case that overturned the last ban on interracial marriage in America: "By the time that Richard and Mildred [Loving] had begun to date in the 1950s, they had lived their whole lives in a community that had made an art form of evading Jim Crow restrictions on relationships." (Via Far Outliers.)

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