1950s – Mildred and Richard Loving
Mildred and Richard got married in the early 1950s. One night in 1958, they were arrested in their home in Virginia, precisely three months after wedding day in Washington DC. They both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one-year imprisonment, after which they would be released to either dissolve the marriage or leave their home and state. The case was lost, and the Lovings spent time in prison, but this did not stop them from appealing until the case reached Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court. The court ruled down the law and made interracial marriages legal for the first time since 1664. This freed Mildred and her husband and many of such couples in America.
