Loving_V._Virginia

Loving V. Virginia Loving v. Virginia Issue: The issue rests in whether or not there is constitutional rights under the Equal Protection Act and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment for the State of Virginia to make it unlawful to marry solely on the basis of racial classifications. Facts: Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, married in the District of Columbia in accommodation to its laws as of 1958. When returning to Virginia as married residents, Lovings was indicted for violations of interracial marriages. Upon a guilty plea, the two were sentenced to a year in jail that was suspended as long as they leave the state for twenty-five years. Questions of liberty and equality paved the way for laws, process, due, virginia, under, state, rights, protection, fourteenth, equal, amendment, white, violation, restrictions, racial, marry, married, man, loving, liberty, found, court, clauses, act, years, year, woman, without, whites, whether, way, violations, upon, unlawful, unconstitutional, two