What Is Loving Day? Anniversary of Interracial Marriage Legalization
On 6/12/21 at 11:21 AM EDT
Today, June 12, is Loving Day, an annual celebration that marks the formal legalization of interracial marriage throughout the United States in a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously in the case of Loving v. Virginia, striking down the state s anti-miscegenation law and bringing an end to race-based restrictions on marriage throughout the nation.
Though it is perhaps not as well-remembered as the earlier Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court s verdict in Loving made it legally possible for people to marry regardless of race, though it would be many more decades before restrictions on same-sex marriage were struck down.
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