Mildred Loving passed away on May 2, 2008 at the age of 68. She played a seminal role in the civil rights movement and reforms of the 1960s. Loving was an African American woman whose marriage to her white husband resulted in the seminal Loving v. Virginia decision in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which banned interracial marriages, was unconstitutional. What I didn't know but learned from the Times's informative obituary (a must read) was the following:
Mrs. Loving stopped giving interviews, but last year issued a statement on the 40th anniversary of the announcement of the Supreme Court ruling, urging that gay men and lesbians be allowed to marry.
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