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Loving v. Virginia


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Loving v. Virginia (1967) is the landmark case in which laws preventing interracial marriages were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. African Americans were permitted to marry individuals from other ...

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Loving v. Virginia
in The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (2) Length: 274 words
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in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2) Length: 353 words
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in Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present Length: 1024 words

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