Race, sex, and the freedom to marry : Loving v. Virginia

Race, sex, and the freedom to marry : Loving v. Virginia /

"In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married. Soon they were hauled out of their bedroom in the middle of the night and taken to jail. Their crime? Loving was white, Jeter was not, and in Virginia--as in twenty-three other states then--...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallenstein, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]
Series:Landmark law cases & American society
Subjects:
Loving, Richard Perry > Trials, litigation, etc.
Loving, Mildred Jeter > Trials, litigation, etc.
Loving, Mildred Jeter.
Loving, Richard Perry.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation > Virginia.
LAW > Family Law > Marriage.
LAW > Civil Rights.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation.
Trials.
Virginia.
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Family and community in the midst of multiple faiths and races
  • An American love story: Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter
  • Back in court, 1963-1966
  • Loving v. Virginia and the US Supreme Court
  • After Loving: The Lovings, their lawyers and Caroline County
  • After Loving: race and family in America
  • The freedom to marry: from interracial to same-sex.

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