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A brief description on the film Loving and its subjects, including connections to Virginia.

Mildred

Black Women in Virginia

Loving

Selected Accolades:

2017 Producers Guild of America Award Stanley Kramer Award
2017 African American Film Critics Association Best Actress (Ruth Negga)

 

Ideas Surrounding Interracial Marriage

Mildred Loving's Letter to RFK

Dear Sir, 

I am writing to you concerning a problem we have.

5 years ago my husband and I were married here in the District. We then returned to VA to live. My husband is white, I am part negro+part Indian. At the time we did not know there was a law in VA against mixed marriages. Therefore we were jailed and tried in a little town of Bowling Green...

Richard

White Men in Virginia