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”