Mildred Loving, the black woman whose fight against Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to the Supreme Court overturning all such laws nationwide, has died at age 68. Loving's cause of death was not disclosed. Read the rest here (via awesome GLBT blog Joe.My.God).
Though Loving said she wasn't trying to change history -- she was just a girl who once fell in love with a boy -- her fight gave interracial couples the legal right to marry. Three years after the ruling, my parents married. Three years after that, I was born and of COURSE the world is better for it.
Seriously -- thank you for fighting, Mildred. Rest in peace.
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It's a little depressing to think that only 40 years ago, my very own marriage would have been illegal. 40 years? That should have happened 100 years ago! But nonetheless, a moment of silence for one of history's accidental heroes.
And how awesome is it that her name was "Loving"? Awesomely awesome.
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