[Reblogging]. Happy Loving Day!
Loving Day commemorates the historic civil rights victory of the illegally married couple Mildred (black) and Richard (white) Loving in Virginia, a marriage for which they spent a year in prison and the conviction overturned on this day in 1967 by the United States Supreme Court.
Love is colour blind.
My mother’s Afro-Caribbean and my father white, English, Irish and Scottish.
See below to find out more about interracial relationships:
- Loving Day resources
- BBC’s Mixed Britannia [ Watch on YT: 1910-1939 | 1940-1965 | 1965-2011 ]
See below to find out more on the children of interracial relationships:
- Mixed Heritage Center resources
- Channel 4′s Is It Better To Be Mixed Race? shares the same theory as Alon Ziv’s Breeding Between the Lines
Reblogged from Literary Ames
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