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The police stormed into their Virginia bedroom one night in 1958, shone flashlights into their eyes, and asked the white man: Who’s this woman you are sleeping with? “I’m his wife,” Mildred Loving replied and the rest, quite literally, became a vital part of American legal history.

The Lovings, Mildred and Richard, were an interracial couple who had married five weeks before the cops came calling that night. At the time, in Virginia and many other places, it was a crime for a white to marry a black or for any other “miscegenation.” Thanks to the Lovings, and a fight that lasted nearly a decade, that all changed in 1967 when the Supreme Court unanimously struck down such laws nationwide.

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