https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms Made with swagger en-us 2017-11-03 12:53:59 UTC 2017-11-06 01:45:34 UTC hello@padlet.com eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203680632 Argued: April 10, 1967
Decided: June 12, 1967]]> 2017-11-05 20:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203680632 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203681786 In the summer of 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, both residents in Virginia, got married in the District of Columbia. When they got back to Virginia they were accused and punished for violating 20-58 of the Virginia Code. They were sentence the Lovings to one year of jail. The couple brought the case to the Supreme Court which decided  that these kinds of laws were unconstitutional.]]> 2017-11-05 20:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203681786 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203683198 The issue presented to the Supreme Court was wether this kinds of laws violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.]]> 2017-11-05 20:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203683198 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203683683 This case was studied in different courts, and was given different decisions. In Virginia they were found guilty and sentence to one year of jail, they were also given the option to leave Virginia for 25 years. But the Supreme Court concluded that the prohibition of interracial marriage was unconstitutional because it contradicted the Fourteenth Amendment.  This was an unanimous decision. ]]> 2017-11-05 20:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203683683 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203684509 Interracial marriages were not accepted among people.  Previously in 1924 "The Racial Integrity Act" was created to prevent racial mixing . As Judge Leon M. Bazile said, "Almighty God created he races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races hows that he did not intend for the races to mix."]]> 2017-11-05 21:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203684509 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203686827 Loving vs. Virginia  decision actually affected the US laws against interracial marriage, and the acceptance of it. ]]> 2017-11-05 21:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203686827 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203708647 As it is said in the article Key Facts About Race and Marriage, 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia by Kristen Bialik, "intermarriage has has increased since [the U.S Supreme Court ruled in the Loving v. Virginia case that marriage across racial lines was legal throughout the country]. " 
Graph below shows data of interracial couples over total marriages in the U.S from 1967 to 2015.]]> 2017-11-06 01:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203708647 eberrocaldecastro19 https://padlet.com/eberrocaldecastro19/83gq35te0zms/wish/203713029 Mildred Jeter, wife (black woman)
Richard Loving, husband (white man)
Chief Justice Earl Warren, judge of Supreme Court that decided case

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