Matriarch of Interracial Marriage Died At 68

[aluokaloo]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Loving.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=mildred+loving&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

RIP Mildred Loving
thank to you and your brave husband you'ved smoothed the path of life for interracial marriages.

[Laisrean]

R.I.P.
68 is too young...


And to think, 40 years later some people are still fighting for the right to marry.

[Catiana]

I think what they did for interracial marriage was great.

But that they started dating when she was 11 and he was 17, Yikes.

[Laisrean]

I think what they did for interracial marriage was great.

But that they started dating when she was 11 and he was 17, Yikes.

Yeah, that is a little odd... and what were their parents thinking about all this? That's hard to imagine...

[MonSno_LeeDra]

I really am tired of this bull. Interracial marriage has been around for years long before this one ever occured.

In my own family tree I have a white man in Tennesse (died 1860's) who married a black woman and had a number of children by him. When he died his brothers tried to fight the colored children from getting the property but the legal system upheld the claim and will and awarded all the protperty to his legal "colored" children.

Another who died in the 1820's and fathered sons by a black woman and claimed them along with all the legal trappings that went with it.

[Laisrean]

I really am tired of this bull. Interracial marriage has been around for years long before this one ever occured.

In my own family tree I have a white man in Tennesse (died 1860's) who married a black woman and had a number of children by him. When he died his brothers tried to fight the colored children from getting the property but the legal system upheld the claim and will and awarded all the protperty to his legal "colored" children.

Another who died in the 1820's and fathered sons by a black woman and claimed them along with all the legal trappings that went with it.

You are correct that interracial marriage and such has been legal in many parts of the country since the beginning, but you are incorrect if you think that was true in all jurisdictions within the country. It really varied from state to state and city to city until this ruling, which canceled out those laws. So that's what makes it so significant.

[MonSno_LeeDra]

I don't deny that it was an important step but it is only a step that was obtainable on the backs of others who faught and carried thier cases to the lower courts and other supreme court cases.

As an action of historical interest it is important but in the totality of the aciton it was but a minor play. Remove the persons that came before and faught, and paid with their life at times, and it would not be obtainable.

That is what I have heart burn about, her case is not unique. She did not originate some new concept or fight for some previous non existant right naitonwide. She simply rode upon the creast of a wave that was started long before her birth.

She received the benefit of others fights but thier name are lost or forgotten. Honestly makes me think of the likes of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. Rosa caught hell and went to jail, Martin just rode her wave and fame.