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Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers : Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving /
This landmark volume chronicles the history of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States with particular emphasis on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia of the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I do
- The passing capital of America
- Making sense of senseless laws
- How it all began
- The prosecutions continue
- Taking away the children and the money
- The West leads the way
- The organizations challenge, and the challenges become organized
- The sad case of Ruby and Ham
- Connie and Dewey share a room
- Richard and Mildred want to go home
- On to the Supreme Court
- The Amicus briefs
- Virginia and North Carolina defend the indefensible
- May it please the court
- The Supreme Court speaks
- Not all states listen
- "A big interracial display of their romance"
- The Feds finally step in
- Happily ever after.