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Loving v. Virginia
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Loving v. Virginia

US Supreme Court decision of 1967 dealing with the constitutionality of state antimiscegenation laws. The case was brought by a Virginia couple convicted of violating a state law against interracial marriages. The Court sustained their challenge to the Virginia statute as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. According to the 8–1 ruling, states may not prevent marriages solely because of the race of the participants.



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Reid, who is bisexual, knows that without the role of the court, she would not be allowed to marry her fiance, who is African-American, since interracial unions were illegal until the 1967 Loving v Virginia Supreme Court decision.
Highlighting the Supreme Court's role in our lives by Henderson, William / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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