Abstract
Loving v. Virginia is the landmark civil rights case that abolished race‐related legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. On June 12, 1967 the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's antimiscegenation statute, the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity of 1924, unconstitutional. Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, an African American and Native American woman, were married in Washington, DC, in 1958, to avoid Virginia's ban on interracial marriage. Upon returning to Virginia in 1959, the couple was arrested and later convicted of breaking the state's antimiscegenation law. The Lovings' appeal of the conviction reached the Supreme Court, where Virginia's ban on interracial marriage was deemed unconstitutional by a unanimous decision, due to its violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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