November 30, 2016
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
photo Courtesy f oCus f eatures
“Loving” is a new dramatization about the couple behind a 1967 Supreme Court decision overturning
laws against interracial marriage. The cast includes (from left) Alano Miller as Raymond Green, Terri
Abney as Mildred’s sister Garnet, and Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving.
Following Where Love Led Them
one of the most insidious and in-
transigent aspects of legalized
overt white supremacy?
Their young ACLU lawyers
o PinionAted
J udge
J udge
d arleen o rtega
by
It somehow does not feel acci-
dental to me that the couple whose
marriage was the basis for the
1967 Supreme Court decision that
declared unconstitutional the laws
against interracial marriage bore
the name “Loving.” I suspect that
heaven was involved, and that the
white boy born in rural Virginia as
Richard Loving was destined to
fall in love with Mildred Jeter, the
gentle woman of African-Ameri-
can and Native American heritage
who became his wife in 1958,
when such a marriage was a felo-
ny punishable by prison time.
By all accounts, these were
simple folks, not gifted strategists
or rhetoricians. What equipped
them to challenge successfully
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