Loving Virginia facts
While investigating facts about Loving Virginia, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Interracial marriage was technically illegal in Alabama until 2000 (although unenforceable due to Loving v Virginia). In the 2000 referendum, only 59% of people voted in favour of removing these anti-miscegenation clauses from the state constitution
T.P Farmer was a soldier in the Confederacy during the 1860s. 100 years later his grandson would be one of the plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, the case that made interracial marriage legal across the U.S
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Loving Virginia I managed to collect.
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Virginia State Police dedicated more than 40,000 work hours to catch a serial arsonist in Accomack County in 2012-13. They found that a couple "in a complicated kind of love" were responsible for 86 arsons in five months.
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California was the first state in the 20th Century to strike down the ban on interracial marriage in 1948, preceding the "Loving v. Virginia" case 19 years later when the U.S. Supreme Court cited the 1948 case and thereby invalidating such state statues nationwide
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50 years after Loving v. Virginia, 1 in 6 U.S. adults is married to someone of a difference race or ethnicity
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Patsy Cline is buried as Virginia H. Dick. Her birthname was Virginia Patterson Henley so I assume the middle initial is for her maiden name. Mrs. Dick's tombstone reads "Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies" Love
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About a woman named Mildred Loving who brought forth a case to the Supreme Court that eventually allowed for interracial marriage, and is of course referred to quaintly as "loving v. Virginia".
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The case where the Supreme Court ruled bans on interracial marriage to be unconstitutional was awesomely named "Loving v. Virginia"
