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Loving: An Intimate Story That Changed America

Based on a true story, Loving offers an intimate portrait of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman, who in 1957 defied the miscegenation laws of Virginia to marry. The events that followed changed America. When Mildred Jeter was about five months pregnant, Richard Loving asked her to marry him. His decision was met with resistance from his family and skepticism from hers. In 1950s Virginia, it was unheard of that a white man would marry a black woman; but, Richard...


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