The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage, (Hardcover)

from Sullywriter

A superbly written and illustrated account of the 1967 landmark case of Loving v. Virginia. Richard Loving, pale-skinned and vulnerable to sunburn, and Mildred Jeter, a brown-skinned woman of African-American and Cherokee descent, fell in love in 1958. But in the state of Virginia, miscegenation ...

from nbmars

As the author explains in an Afterword to this book, she is white and her husband, fellow illustrator Sean Qualls, is African-American. They fell in love and were married in 2003. Alko writes: "I must admit, it's difficult to imagine that just decades ago couples just like us not only faced discr...

from michelleannlib

This was beautiful, just wonderful!

from bwinte3

The is book a white man Richard loving feel in love with a black girl Mildred and she loved him back and they wanted to get married and live their lives where they grew up in Virginia. In Virginia at the time it was illegal for white and blacks to get married so Richard and Mildred (String Bean) ...

from Sullywriter

A superbly written and illustrated account of the 1967 landmark case of Loving v. Virginia. Richard Loving, pale-skinned and vulnerable to sunburn, and Mildred Jeter, a brown-skinned woman of African-American and Cherokee descent, fell in love in 1958. But in the state of Virginia, miscegenation ...