The case for loving : the fight for interracial marriage / by Selina Alko ; illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 36 un-numbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0545478537
- 9780545478533
- Loving : the fight for interracial marriage
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | Family & Pets | 306.846 A415 | Available | 33111007720556 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 306.846 A415 | Available | 33111008868800 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about." -- Mildred Loving, June 12, 2007For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, and their three children. It is the story of how Mildred and Richard fell in love, and got married in Washington, D.C. But when they moved back to their hometown in Virginia, they were arrested (in dramatic fashion) for violating that state's laws against interracial marriage. The Lovings refused to allow their children to get the message that their parents' love was wrong and so they fought the unfair law, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court - and won!
Includes filmography and bibliographical references.
The story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving, who got married in Washington, D.C., and were arrested after they returned to Virginia, and took their legal case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.