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UWL Celebrates

Loving Month

About Loving Month

For starters, it's actually a day, but why limit love to just a day? National Loving Day is the annual celebration (June 12) of the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court Decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states.
Interracial relationships and marriage were legalized in the United States in a unanimous decision. The justices found that Virginia’s interracial marriage law violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
 
More about Richard and Mildred Loving the couple who battled for their marriage in the landmark Loving v. Virginia case: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/loving-v-virginia-1967/