June 12, 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other.
Background:
The plaintiffs in the case were Mildred Delores Loving, née Jeter, a woman of African-American and Rappahannock Native American descent, and Richard Perry Loving, a white man.
In music, the case has been the subject of Drew Brody’s Ballad of Mildred Loving (Loving in Virginia).
