That was an excellent, well written article. He could have been writing about the lines I traced in Virginia. There was the law, and then their were the people.  When I was growing up in Pennsylvania there were quite a few African Americans from Virginia there. They worked in the Steel Mill, or owned their own businesses.  When they reached retirement age, most returned to Virginia. Looking back now I see that the only issue they had with Virginia was economics. Once they had their retirement, they got a little house and moved back. Some already had land, and were building their dream houses during vacations.  

I believe that most Virginians are forward thinking people. 

Anita 
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:00:36 -0400
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> Subject: NY Times essay
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> At the risk of reopening another round of heated discussion, I would call
> list members' attention to an essay about Mildred and Richard Loving by
> Brent Staples that appears in today's NY Times:  http://tinyurl.com/6zy4rg.
> 
> There may--and probably will--be differences of opinion regarding his
> references to TJ, and to other aspects of the Lovings' case.  But I found
> his "story behind the story" very interesting and a reminder to all of us
> who work in history, whether as amateurs (which, after all, means those who
> love something for its own sake) or as professionals (those who earn their
> living at it) that the past is as complex a place as today is, and it is our
> obligation to make that understood to our wider audiences, whoever and
> wherever they are.
> 
> Martha Katz-Hyman
> 
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