Thank you for calling my grandfather "John whomever" and my grandmother an
"Indian chick." Scholarship abounds on this list.

S,

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:04 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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