John whomever. He was still a white guy who married this Indian chick way
back in the day in Virginia. The Loving case was a test case to get rid of a
law that was essentially un enforced In Virginia much as the 55 mile an hour
speed limit is largely un enforced. It apparently had no chilling effect on
anyone, including the Lovings, who wanted to get married in the state. It
was a vestige of Jim Crow that had long died and just needed to be taken off
the books. The NAACP funded and backed the whole thing, and since the Lovings
were living in DC at the time, there was no risk of any sort of enforcement
by the Commonwealth.
What else did she ever do for the public good?
J South
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