The Lesson in Loving
My parents were married in 1973, only six years after the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ended prohibitions on interracial marriage in Virginia, among other states.
It wasn’t until recently that it occurred to me how close their wedding was to the Loving case or the courage it took to marry someone of another race at that time, especially for my mother who was only twenty-one.
