Richard Loving Research Paper

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Richard Loving was born October 29, 1933, in Central Point, Virginia. Growing up in part of Caroline County, people of different ethnic groups openly socialized together. Loving being of Irish and English descent met his future wife, Mildred Jeter who was African American and Native American descent, when he was 17 and she only 11. What first started as a great friendship, soon turned romantic relationship. At 18 Mildred became pregnant and the two decided to get married. The only thing that was stopping them was Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Act, which stated that interracial marriages were not allowed. Believing to have found a loophole, the couple traveled the Washington D.C. to get married, and then returned back to their home in Virginia.

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