Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving V. Virginia

by Peter Wallenstein

Book Overview

In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married. Soon they were hauled out of their bedroom in the middle of the night and taken to jail. Their crime? Loving was white, Jeter was not, and in Virginia--as in twenty-three other states then--interracial marriage was illegal. Their experience reflected that of countless couples across America since colonial times. And in challenging the laws against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700620001
• ISBN13: 9780700620005
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"