I found out earlier today that Mildred Loving died at the age of 68 on May 2 of this year.  A brave woman and the Petitioner to the Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia.  This is an important case not only for civil rights but for family law. 

The United States Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute, the “Racial Integrity Act of 1924″, unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United State.  States maintained similar laws ending with Alabama in 2000.

Miscegenation statutes were enacted to criminalize marriages between Anglos and African Amercians.