A Woman to Know: Mildred Loving
It was God’s work. — Mildred Loving
It was God’s work. — Mildred Loving
(image via the National Portrait Gallery)
In 1963, Mildred Loving wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Five years earlier, she and her husband had been cast out of their home state of Virginia. Their crime: miscegenation. At the time 24 states, including the Lovings’ beloved home state of Virginia,…
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