The history of the court battle over the right of interracial marriage which overturned discriminatory state laws and the precedent's value in the case for same-sex marriage.
In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, from Caroline County, Virginia, got married. Soon they were hauled out of their bedroom in the middle of the night and taken to jail. Their crime? Loving was white, Jeter was not, and in Virginia interracial marriage was illegal. In challenging the laws against their marriage, the Lovings closed the book on a very long chapter in the US's history. This title tells their story and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.
