The Case for Loving

SELINA ALKO | SEAN QUALLS + SELINA ALKO

  • English

  • segregation, anti-Black racism, marriage, family, incarceration

  • Pre Kindergarten +

This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, and their three children. It is the story of how Mildred and Richard fell in love, and got married in Washington, D.C. But when they moved back to their hometown in Virginia, they were arrested (in dramatic fashion) for violating that state's laws against interracial marriage. The Lovings refused to allow their children to get the message that their parents' love was wrong and so they fought the unfair law, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court--and won!