Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving. Phyl Newbeck

Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving



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Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Language: English
Page: 334
ISBN: 0809325284, 9780809325283

The legal challenge mounted by Richard and Mildred Loving, convicted in the 1950s of violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriage, led to the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that antimiscegenation laws were unconstitutional. Newbeck, an attorney, examines this landmark case in the context of laws banning interracial marriage before and after Loving. But the most compelling part of this legal history is the personal recollections of a member of the Loving family, who had previously maintained public silence on the issue. Drawing also on interviews with attorneys who argued for and against such bans, Newbeck brings personal perspectives to the history, sociology, and politics of banning interracial marriage. She places the fervor over banning interracial liaisons within the context of historical sexual and racial politics and issues of social activism and family dynamics; and she places the Loving case specifically within the context of the civil rights struggle. This is an informative and insightful look at legal attempts to regulate marriage and is particularly timely given the current public debate about gay marriage. Vernon Ford
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved “Phyl Newbeck’s Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers is a clearly written, accessible, well-organized, and remarkably researched history of the path-breaking Loving case. It also stands as a comprehensive history of legal efforts to enforce antimiscegenation laws and their ultimate demise. Of particular interest is Newbeck’s seemingly indefatigable effort to interview everyone involved in Loving and other significant cases and her assiduous efforts to track down the documentary record.”—Michael Meltsner, Harvard Law School and Northeastern Law School

“Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers is quite correct to take the hypocrisy of this state to task. It was all right for white men to congress with black women, as long as the white men didn’t marry their dusky lovers. Richard and Mildred Loving challenged that hypocrisy. And brought a candle to the dark tower of race hatred. That Virginia is for loving. And there are next steps to be taken.”

—Nikki Giovanni, poet, Virginia Tech University



“Newbeck’s exploration of the antimiscegenation laws in America touches the very core of racial discrimination and race hatred in America: sexual intimacy between races. Using the Lovings as the tale-telling prism, she does an excellent job of illuminating the dreadful life—and happy death—of these racist laws and folkways.”—Howard Ball, author of Murder in Mississippi



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