Loving v. Virginia - Milestone Documents

Loving v. Virginia

( 1967 ) Commentary by Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Cray, Ed. Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Kennedy, Randall. Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption. New York: Pantheon, 2003.
Newbeck, Phyl. Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Wallenstein, Peter. Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law—An American History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Civil War–era satire of a "Miscegenation Ball" (Library of Congress)

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