Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 13, 2007
'Loving’ Decision Advanced Equality
Forum Column - By Barbara J. Cox - Barbara Cox celebrates the 40-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions that legalized interracial marriage.
By Barbara J. Cox
In Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which prohibited marriages by interracial couples.
The trial court in Loving used a definitional defect as its rationale to uphold the statute, stating that "Divine Providence had not intended that the marriage state extend to interra...
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