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Groundbreaking Interracial Marriage

"I think marrying who you want is a right no man should have anything to do with. It's a God-given right," said Mildred Loving to ABC News 40 years ago. A demure young woman from Caroline County, Va., Mildred Jeter Loving never desired attention or publicity. Least of all did she ever imagine she would enter the history books when she married her childhood sweetheart, Richard Loving. It was 1958. Mildred, a black woman, and Richard, a white man, drove 80 miles to Washington, D.C., to...Full Story
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