Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states citing "There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause." In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly forbidding marriage between non-whites and whites. Loving Day is not yet an official US-government-recognized holiday, but there is a movement to persuade President Obama to make it so. Origin of the Day
"Loving" side of the U.S. Supreme Court case consisted of Mildred and Richard Loving. They first met when she was 11 and he was 17. He was a family friend and over the years they started courting. After she became pregnant, they got married in Washington in 1958, when she was 18. Reportedly, Mildred didn't realize interracial marriage was illegal, and they were arrested a few weeks after they returned to their hometown north of Richmond. They pleaded guilty to charges of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth," and avoided jail time by agreeing to leave Virginia. They moved to Washington, D.C. and began legal action by writing to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy referred the case to the American Civil Liberties Union. After the Warren Court unanimously ruled in favor of the young couple, they returned to Virginia, where they lived with their three children. Mildred Loving died May 5, 2008 at the age of 68. Richard Loving died about thirty-three years earlier in a car accident. Each June 12, the anniversary of the ruling, Loving Day events around the country mark the advances of mixed-race couples. "I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being." ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X We are seeing an increasingly multiracial and multiethnic country.
--Andrew Cherlin, professor at Johns Hopkins University
CBS News
The rate of interracial marriage in the United States has doubled since 1980, hitting a record 14.6 percent of all new marriages in 2008, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
When Mr. Obama's parents were married in 1961, less than one in 1,000 new marriages was between a black person and a white person. By 1980, the figure was one in 150 new marriages. By 2008, the year Mr. Obama was elected to the White House, it had risen to one in 60. Due to increasing interracial marriages, multiracial Americans are a small but fast-growing demographic group, making up about 5 percent of the minority population. Together with blacks, Hispanics and Asians, the Census Bureau estimates they collectively will represent a majority of the U.S. population by mid-century.
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IT'S ALL JUST LOVE..
FOR MORE READING ON THE TOPIC
http://contemporaryfamilies.org/marriage-partnership-divorce/how-color-blind-is-love.html
http://www.milkandmocha.com/
http://www.multiculturalfamilia.com/
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/mixed-couple
http://www.lovingday.org
