Richard
Perry
Loving
Born in Central Point, Caroline, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Twillie Blagmon Loving
and Lola Jane (Allen) Loving
Brother of
[private sister (1920s - unknown)] and [private sister (1930s - unknown)]
Husband of
Mildred Delores (Jeter) Loving
— married
2 Jun 1958 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 41
in Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia, United States
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Biography
Richard Loving is Notable.
Richard Loving and his wife, Mildred Jeter Loving, were plaintiffs in the 1967 landmark civil rights decision Loving v. Virginia, a US Supreme Court ruling invalidating laws prohibiting interracial marriage. [1] As an interracial couple, they were not allowed to marry in their home state of Virginia, [2] so they married in Washington DC, and were later banned from Virginia for 25 years. [3] As a couple, they together became 'Notable' and very much appreciated. June 12 each year is 'Loving Day.' [4]
Richard Perry Loving was born 29 Oct 1933, in Central Point, Caroline County, Virginia, USA. [5][6] He was the son of Twillie Loving and Lola Jane Allen. [7] [8][9]
Richard married Mildred Jeter in Washington, DC on 2 June 1958.[10] Shortly after returning to their home in Virginia, they were arrested for violating Virginia's law banning interracial marriage. Although sentenced to a year in jail, their sentence was suspended when they agreed to leave Virginia for 25 years. They moved to Washington, DC and with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union eventually had the law overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. [11] After the ruling they returned to Virginia, where they raised three children.
Richard died 29 Jun 1975, in DeJarnette, Caroline County, Virginia, when ...a drunk driver struck the Lovings's car..... Richard was killed in the accident, at age 41; Mildred lost her right eye. Mildred died of pneumonia on May 2, 2008, in Milford, Virginia, at age 68." [7] He is remembered in the Saint Stephens Baptist Church Cemetery, Central Point, Caroline County, Virginia, USA. [3]
Research Notes
Sources
- ↑ * notable: "Loving v. Virginia," Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed August 27, 2014).
- "Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[1][2]"
- (1) Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) ("This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 388 of the United States Reports.").
- (2) Bibliography: Nowak, John E.; Rotunda, Ronald D. (2012). Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure (5th ed.). Eagan, Minnesota: West Thomson/Reuters. OCLC 798148265.
- "Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[1][2]"
- ↑ * States where/when interracial marriages were legal/illegal. Miscegenation. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Exhibits, n.d., on-line.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 * 2008 findagrave: Richard Perry Loving (29 Oct 1933–29 Jun 1975), Find A Grave: Memorial #26906872; citing Saint Stephen's Baptist Church Cemetery, Central Point, Caroline County, Virginia, USA.
- "Civil Rights Figure. A 1967 United States Supreme Court Ruling on a case involving his marriage to Mildred Jeter led to the striking down of all state laws that banned and criminalized interracial marriage. On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving, a white man, married Mildred Jeter, a black woman. Their wedding took place in Washington, DC because their home state, Virginia, had a law prohibiting inter-racial marriages. They returned to Caroline County, Virginia and were arrested, as their union violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924. In 1959 they plead guilty and were given a one year suspended sentence under the condition that they leave Virginia and not return for 25 years. In 1963 they challenged the law and in March of 1966, the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the law. On June 12, 1967, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled the law unconstitutional. Because of this ruling, (Loving v. Virginia) the 16 states which still had anti-miscegenation laws on their books were forced to repeal them. Richard Loving was killed by a drunk driver. His wife lost her right eye in the same accident." Bio by Eamonn.
- ↑ * notable: "Loving Day," Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed September 26, 2020).
- ↑ * Birth: "Virginia, U.S., Birth Records, 1912-2015, Delayed Birth Records, 1721-1911"
Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia, Births, 1864-2016
Ancestry Record 9277 #1207764 (accessed 10 February 2022)
Richard Perry Loving born on 29 Oct 1933 in Caroline, Virginia, USA. - ↑ * notable: *birth and *death: "Mildred and Richard Loving," Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed September 26, 2020).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 * Death: "Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014"
Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Deaths, 1912-2014
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 9278 #1725192 (accessed 10 February 2022)
Richard Perry Loving death 29 Jun 1975 (age 41) in Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia, USA. Spouse: Mildred Jeter Loving, Father: Twillie Loving, mother: Lola Allen Loving - ↑ * 1975 death: "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPFG-P28 : 19 May 2014), Richard Loving, Jun 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ↑ * 1940 Census: "1940 United States Federal Census"
Year: 1940; Census Place: Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia; Roll: m-t0627-04253; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 17-6
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2442 #24844005 (accessed 10 February 2022)
Richard P Loving (7), single son, in household of Tuillie Loving (37) in Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia. Born in Virginia. - ↑ Marriage License for Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Delores Jeter, 1958, National Archives, National Archives Identifier: 17412479, at: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17412479?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newandnote-june2021
- ↑ 1975 Obituary, The Albuquerque Journal (Albquerque, New Mexico), 1 Jul 1975, Free View of Article
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