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RICHMOND, (UPl)—The Supreme count's upsetting of state laws against racially-mixed marriages, yesterday ended nine years and 11 days of fear for Richard arid Mildred Loving, sweethearts since childhood,.On June 2, 1958, Richard, then 22, and Mildred, then 16, were married in Washington, D, C, T^ey had eloped. They did not know it was against the law for them to marry and live in Virginia, ’They once . said they had no idea what scorn and hatred they would feel.Richard was learning the construction trade,and looked forward to taking his part-Negro, part-Indian wife back home to Caroline County, In the rolling Virginia hills 30 miles north of Richmond, .But their marriage came In the heydey. of Virginia's “massive resistance” to school desegregation. White Virginians in; Prince Edward County were to dose their nubile schnnls
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Radford News Journal
Radford, Virginia, US
Tue, Jun 13, 1967
Page 4
Full Page
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