Civil Rights: Loving v Virginia

Civics 101

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Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mildred and Richard Loving were jailed and banished for marrying in 1958. Nearly a decade later, their Supreme Court case changed the meaning of marriage equality in the United States — decriminalizing their own marriage while they were at it. This is the story of Loving. Our guests are Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. and Farrah Parkes and Brad Linder of The Loving Project.

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:05.2	And if we do, we will be helping a lot of people.
0:11.2	And I know we have some enemies, so we have some friends too.
0:16.4	Richard and Mildred Levin were newlyweds.
0:19.0	I say I think the learned who you want to is all right,
0:22.5	that no matter how many things you have, they had known each other since they were kids.
0:27.0	They grew up neighbors in Caroline County, Virginia.
0:30.0	When my husband's father, he gave us a eight-year-old,
0:32.8	a rain, and it went across the road, and that's what we want to build.
0:37.4	And I'll be close to my mother and he'll be close to his family.
0:40.7	They dated off and on for years before deciding to finally get married.
0:45.9	In July of 1958, they'd been married for about five weeks.
0:51.1	Mildred was pregnant with their first child together.
0:53.5	At 2am on July 11th, the Levings were asleep in their bed in their small home.
0:59.9	When they heard someone at the door, and suddenly,
1:05.8	the front door was broken down.
1:08.5	Police officers burst into their bedroom.
1:10.8	They shined their flashlights into the Levings eyes.
1:29.4	They ex-Richard, who was a woman he was sleeping with.
1:32.8	I say I'm his wife and the sheriff said, not you, you're not.
1:36.0	What? What did the sheriff mean by not hear you're not?
1:42.2	Good question.
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