1967 supreme court case loving v virginia a case which legally allowed
interracial marriage
title: Loving v. Virginia text: Loving v. Virginia Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage. The case was brought by Mildred Loving (), a woman of color, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". The Supreme Court's unanimous decision determined that this prohibition was title: Loving v. Virginia text: granting Mr. Kirby's annulment. In the "Monks" case ("Estate of Monks", 4. Civ. 2835, Records of California Court of Appeals, Fourth district), the Superior Court of San Diego County in 1939 decided to invalidate the marriage of Marie Antoinette and Allan Monks because she was deemed to have "one eighth negro blood". The court case involved a legal challenge over the conflicting wills that had been left by the late Allan Monks; an old one in favor of a friend named Ida Lee, and a newer one in favor of his wife. Lee's lawyers charged that the marriage of the title: Bernard S. Cohen text: Loving", he was played by Corey Parker. In the 2016 film "Loving", he is played by Nick Kroll. Bernard S. Cohen Bernard S. "Bernie" Cohen (born January 17, 1934) was a politician and former Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates. On April 10, 1967, he presented oral argument for the petitioners in the "Loving v. Virginia" case before the U. S. Supreme Court. On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cohen's clients, declaring bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional, thus invalidating the anti-miscegenation laws of 15 states. Although some nine states failed to repeal the title: Loving Day text: Loving Day Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision "Loving v. Virginia" which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states." In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were U.S. state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly forbidding marriage between non-whites and whites. Loving Day is not an officially recognized holiday by the U.S. government, despite attempts to make it so. Loving Day is the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States. Loving Day originated with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case "Loving v. Virginia", which invalidated title: Loving v. Virginia text: was based on the same principles – equality and an unenumerated right to marriage. During oral argument, the eventual author of the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy, noted that the ruling holding racial segregation unconstitutional and the ruling holding bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional ("Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954 and "Loving v. Virginia" in 1967, respectively), were made about 13 years apart, much like the ruling holding bans on same-sex sexual activity unconstitutional and the eventual ruling holding bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional ("Lawrence v. Texas" in 2003 and "Obergefell v. Hodges" in 2015, respectively). In the United