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PBS NewsHour. Mildred Loving, key figure in civil rights era, dies (May 6, 2008) / produced by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Black studies in video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loving, Richard Perry.
- Loving, Mildred Jeter.
- Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--Virginia.
- Interracial marriage.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (6 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, 2008.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Loving v. Virginia that laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional. Mildred Loving, a black woman married to a white man, had been prosecuted under one such Virginia law in 1958 and challenged it in the high court. Loving died in early May at the age of 68.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 9, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 904558175
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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