During the time of the Civil Rights Movement there were 2 people named Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter. Richard was a white man and Mildred was a black woman. They lived in Virginia in 1958. Richard and Mildred were in love and wanted to get married but they couldn’t because of the Jim Crow laws. If they got married they would go to jail. Since they couldn’t have a legal marriage in Virginia they traveled to Washington D.C to get married. Once they got back home to Virginia the police showed up to their door in the middle of the night and were arrested for being married to each other. After a few nights in jail they were told that if they wanted to stay married and live together they had to leave the state of Virginia. So they left Virginia and moved to D.C. They lived in D.C for a little while they started their family but they missed Virginia. They wanted to move back so they hired lawyers to help them fight the law, by then it was 1966. Their case eventually made it all the way to the Supreme Court. On June 12, 1967 their case Loving v. Virginia began. The court ended up ruling in favor of the Lovings so they could be legally married and live in Virginia. The Lovings went through many hardships but they knew that they would find a way to be together. The Lovings opened up the door for interracial marriage in the United States and created opportunities for every interracial couple in America.