| LC control no. | n 99277091 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Loving, Mildred Jeter |
| Variant(s) | Jeter, Mildred Delores |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19390722 |
| Death date | 20080502 |
| Place of birth | Central Point (Va.) |
| Place of death | Central Point (Va.) |
| Found in | Alonso, Karen. Loving v. Virginia, 2000: CIP galley (Mildred Jeter Loving; Mildred Loving) New York times WWW site, May 6, 2008 (Mildred Loving; b. Mildred Delores Jeter; d. May 2, Central Point, Va., aged 68; black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws) The Loving story, c2011: title frame (Mildred Loving, 1939-2008) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Loving, Mildred Delores Jeter; Mildred Delores Jeter; defendant, plaintiff, celebrity; born 22 July 1939 in Central Point, Virginia, United States; graduated from Union High School, Bowling Green, Virginia (1957); when many states prohibited interracial marriages, she married a white man, Richard Loving (1958); they married in Washington, D.C.; back home the Sheriff charged them unlawful cohabitation and put them in jail, Bowling Green, charged with violating Virginia's 1924 Racial Integrity Act, suspended sentences if they leave Virginia state; they moved to Washington, D.C., remained in exile for 5 years; she solicited help from Robert F. Kennedy (1963), the US Supreme Court released the ban (12 June 1967); they returned to Caroline County; at a car accident (29 June 1975), Richard was killed, Mildred lost her eye; died 02 May 2008 in Central Point, Virginia, United States) |
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