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They were given two options: spend a year in jail, or leave the state. So the Lovings headed back to Washington, DC. But years later, they were arrested once again for traveling together while en route to visit relatives back home. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 21, 2021 Hibernated

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But upon returning to their home state of Virginia, law enforcement broke into their home and arrested the two for violating the state’s law against interracial marriage. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 21, 2021 Hibernated

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The couple wrote to the US Attorney General who then referred them to us at the ACLU. We took on their case, ultimately representing the Lovings at the Supreme Court in the landmark 1967 case that struck down state bans on interracial marriage. #BlackHistoryMonth — PolitiTweet.org

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