Their marriage violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people classified as 'white' and people classified as ' colored'. The case involved Mildred Loving, a woman of color, and her white husband Richard Loving, who in 1958 were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States unconstitutional, including in the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Beginning in 2013, it was cited as precedent in U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S.
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
