Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A quiet anniversary
On this date in 1967, the US Supreme Court (not always as determinedly useless as they have been recently) struck down the State of Virginia's anti-"miscegenation" law, rendering such laws unconstitutional. The case was Loving v. Virginia. Wikipedia has a fairly good description here, and there's another article, with photos, here.
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