Monday, May 05, 2008

R.I.P. Mildred Loving

Mildred Loving, the black woman who once challenged Virginia's ban on interracial marriage and whose challenge ultimately led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling against such laws, has passed away at age 68.

She will be missed.

Without people with her courage, we Americans would be living in a vastly different society today.

Her husband died in 1975.

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