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Mildred Loving

American civil rights activist

Also known as: Mildred Delores Jeter

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Loving v. Virginia

In Loving v. Virginia
…Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, traveled from their residences in Central Point, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., to be married on June 2, 1958. Having returned to Central Point, they lived in the home of Mildred’s parents while Richard,…
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