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H ollywood interpretations of true events always take some liberties with the truth, but the new film Loving—based on the intriguing story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs of the ...
- They Were Arrested in Their Bedroom Five Weeks After Their Wedding
- The Couple Initially Pleaded Guilty to Violating The Racial Integrity Act
- Mildred Enlisted The Help of Robert F. Kennedy
- The Supreme Court’S Ruling Struck Down The Country’S Last Segregation Laws
- The Couple remained Married Until Richard’s Death in 1975
The Lovings were married on July 11, 1958, and were arrested five weeks later when the county sheriff and two deputies burst into their bedroom in the early morning hours. The officers reportedly acted on an anonymous tip, and when Mildred Loving told them she was his wife, the sheriff reportedly responded, “That’s no good here.” “I felt such outra...
Although the couple lawfully wed in Washington, D.C., their union was not recognized in Virginia, which was one of 24 states that banned interracial marriage. The couple initially pleaded guilty to violating the state’s Racial Integrity Act, with a local judge reportedly telling them that if God had meant whites and blacks to mix, he would not have...
Finally in 1967, tired of the city and emboldened by the civil rights movement, Mildred wrote to U.S. Attorney General Robert. F. Kennedy for help. Kennedy referred her to the American Civil Liberties Union, which agreed to take the case. The ACLU assigned a young volunteer lawyer, Bernie Cohen, to the case. Cohen, played by Nick Kroll in the film,...
The case made its way to the Supreme Court in 1967, with the judges unanimously rulingin the couple’s favor. Their decision wiped away the country’s last remaining segregation laws. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the court’s opinion, just as he did in 1954 when the court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were illegal. Ne...
Just eight years after the Supreme Court decision, Richard Loving died in a car accident. Mildred Loving died of pneumonia in 2008. A year before her death, she acknowledged the 40th anniversary of the ruling, and expressed her support for gays and lesbians to have the right to marry, per the Times. “The older generation’s fears and prejudices have...
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Oct 27, 2016 · The Loving movie true story confirms that interracial marriage was illegal in 24 states in 1958, including Virginia, and was punishable by jail time. -The Loving Story Did Richard Loving really like to drag race on the weekends?
Jeff Nichols, on the development and approach of Loving On April 6, 2009, while filming John Doyle's Main Street (2010) in Durham, North Carolina, Colin Firth had stumbled upon the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, before being introduced to filmmaker Nancy Buirski. Buirski herself had recently read the obituary of Mildred Loving in The New York Times, [114] [115] and spoke to Firth about ...
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Nov 4, 2016 · Loving: Directed by Jeff Nichols. With Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford. The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Jeff Nichols
- 2016-11-04
The film includes rare interviews, photographs and film shot during the time. Loving, a 2016 film by Jeff Nichols inspired by The Loving Story, starring Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving and Ruth Negga as Mildred Loving. "The Loving Kind" is a song written by country/folk singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith.
Nov 15, 2016 · The film "Loving" opened nationwide over the weekend. It tells the true story of Richard and Loving, rural Virginians of different races who married in Washington, D.C. On return to their home in ...
