Racism
Loving Day: A look at interracial marriage 54 years after Supreme Court decision
Christine Fernando
USA TODAY
Police knocked at the door of Mildred and Richard Loving in 1958. Their crime: They had just been married.
The two were arrested and eventually banished from Virginia for violating the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, the foundation of interracial marriage bans in 16 states. Mildred was Black and Native American; Richard was white.