The police went into the Loving's bedroom in the middle of the night and
arrested them; the judge sentenced them to long prison sentences if they
did not leave the state; and furthermore, the NAACP refused to take the
case; it was not their case.

In otherwords everything you say below is utterly incorrect.  I would
suggest you read "Tell the Court I Love My Wife" by Va. Tech's Peter
Wallenstein before you babble on about things you do not know and
mislead members of this list by your lack of knowledge.  

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
     and Public Policy
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York   12208-3494

518-445-3386 
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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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