Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th