Wow... 

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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Mildred Jeter Loving (1940-2008), & an apology
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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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