The story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Perry, who got married in Washington, D.C., and were arrested after they returned to Virginia, and took their legal case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This tribute to the Loving family describes how they were arrested in mid-twentieth-century Virginia for violating laws against interracial marriage and argued their case all the way to the Supreme Court, prompting a landmark civil-rights triumph.
- ISBN10 0545478537
- ISBN13 9780545478533
- Publish Date 27 January 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Arthur A. Levine Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 40
- Language English