Virginia hasn't always been for lovers : interracial marriage bans and the case of Richard and Mildred Loving /
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
c2004
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Table of Contents:
- 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