You are really misinformed.  Jim Crow laws lasted long after the Lovings 
were married and managed to get the Supreme Court decision that Virginia's 
marriage laws were illegal.  On my return to Virginia ibn 1973 after living 
elsewhere with a military career husband, I learned that the school system 
in which I was to teach was integrated for the first time that year.  I 
suppose you think that Rosa Parks's decision to take the vacant seat was of 
no value.  May I say that there are many acts of seemingly unimportant 
significance at the time that led to major changes in our culture and lives.

Laura Catherine

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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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