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There is a dirty little secret not taught in American History and perhaps not known by many young people these days about the extent of our "apartheid" in the United States. Oh, they may have knowledge of segregation and think it was about eating in restaurants, sitting on buses and going to school but it was more insidious than that. It was about laws forbidding people from living with the person they loved because they were of different races.
Of course those laws were eventually, belatedly, determined to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 1967 in the Loving versus Virginia case.
Here, for those of you who slept thru American History, or who were denied this valuable piece of history that was perhaps left out of the school curriculum is the story:
In 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the DC because Virginia law forbade whites and blacks from marrying. When they went back home they were sentenced to a year in jail, or they could leave the state and not come back for 25 years. They appealed this verdict all the way to the U.S. Supreme court where as they say, the rest is history. Except that very few Americans know this history.
My wife and I benefited from this history and it irritates me that this forgotten civil rights case does not get recognition.
There is a dirty little secret not taught in American History and perhaps not known by many young people these days about the extent of our "apartheid" in the United States. Oh, they may have knowledge of segregation and think it was about eating in restaurants, sitting on buses and going to school but it was more insidious than that. It was about laws forbidding people from living with the person they loved because they were of different races.
Of course those laws were eventually, belatedly, determined to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 1967 in the Loving versus Virginia case.
Here, for those of you who slept thru American History, or who were denied this valuable piece of history that was perhaps left out of the school curriculum is the story:
In 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the DC because Virginia law forbade whites and blacks from marrying. When they went back home they were sentenced to a year in jail, or they could leave the state and not come back for 25 years. They appealed this verdict all the way to the U.S. Supreme court where as they say, the rest is history. Except that very few Americans know this history.
My wife and I benefited from this history and it irritates me that this forgotten civil rights case does not get recognition.
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