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The case for loving

by Selina Alko

Interracial marriageLaw and legislationJuvenile literatureMiscegenationHistoryFamily, juvenile literature

The story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Perry, who got married in Washington, D.C., and were arrested after they returned to Virginia, and took their legal case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. This tribute to the Loving family describes how they were arrested in mid-twentieth-century Virginia for violating laws against interracial marriage and argued their case all the way to the Supreme Court, prompting a landmark civil-rights triumph.

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Book data: Open Library