Bernard S Cohen represented the Loving couple in a lawsuit against the state of Virginia in 1967. Their name ensured it would be a landmark case, he told US media. The ruling was later used in ...
Pantea, Maria-Carmen 2014. On pride, shame, passing and avoidance: an inquiry into Roma young people’s relationship with their ethnicity. Identities, Vol. 21, Issue ...
Mr Thomas's opinion made no mention of the case that legalised interracial marriage in 1967 - Loving v Virginia. Court-watchers noted how that landmark case - like the three he mentioned - came ...
the Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage. The day is named for the monumental case, Loving v. Virginia, and the interracial couple at its center, Richard and Mildred Loving.
In 1948, the California Supreme Court ruled in Perez v. Sharp that California's anti-miscegenation statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This made California the first ...