Loving v.
Virginia
:Of 1967: U.S Supreme court
FACTS OF THE CASE
• Residents of Virginia named Mildred Jeter,
a black women, and Richard Loving, a
white man were married.
• They were charged with violating the
states anti miscegenation statue, which
banned inter-racial marriages.
• They sentence 1 year in jail.
ISSUE
• The U.S supreme Court had struck down
laws banning interracial marriages in the
United States.
• The case was a landmark case, because it
wasn’t only African Americans and Whites.
• Whites and non-white ethnic groups such
as Asians and Native Americans .
• They passed the Racial Integrity Action.
March 20, 1924
DECISION
• Under the Equal Protection Clause they
were subject to “ The most rigid scrutiny”,
the court found, had no legitimate
purpose. The court first rejected the status
argument because it only applied to black
and whites. NOT to other “R A C I A L P U
R P O S E (“ The Fourteenth Amendment”)
DECISION CONT.
• Under the Constitution, phrase written by,
Chief Justice Earl Warren “ The Freedom
marry, to marry or not to marry, a person of
another race resides with the individual,
and cannot be infringed by the state”