Day of San Valentine: Richard and Mildred Loving, The Powerful History of Love That Came to EE.UU. | Sociedad | La Revista

When Richard and Mildred were arrested, they did not want to make “a political statement or a loophole”.

Simple established enamorados.

Tuvieron que irse a Washington para contraer nupcias porque las autoridades de Virginia -donde ambos crecieron, se enamoraron y querían hacer su familia- les prohibían casarse.

Era el año 1958.

“Vera, bey a color woman and Richard was white and in this era the people created that we should avoid that we get rid of our ideas about who debates with whom”, Mildred wrote several years later.

Cuando regresaron in Virginia, geen tenían ninguna intención de desafiar la ley, gevestig “felizmente casados”.

But all changed a madrugada.

‘Eran como las 2:00 de la mañana. Vi la luz [de una linterna] and when I despaired, the police found a bed of the bed. We say we are paralyzed, ”said Mildred.

El balju, junto a dos ayudantes, le preguntó a Richard quién era ella. “Mi esposa”, he replied.

Although the matrimonial certificate was issued in the parade, both were arrested “for the ‘crime’ of having committed the equivocal person,” said Mildred.

This is the story of love that has had a transcendental impact on society and in the stadiums that BBC Mundo recorded in the Day of San Valentín.

Los loving

Mildred Jeter, who had black and aboriginal races, lived with Richard Loving in Virginia when he was two. He was mayor of that year.

It seems that in the 50s racial segregation intensified in the United States, in the rural population where they live white and black and share freedom.

Ambas familias eran amigas, pero the romance of his hijos creation when the interracial matrimonial institute prohibited in this state.

For this reason, they were arrested in their alcove, in 1959, they were sent to prison for one year.

Without embarrassment, a juez suspended the fine with the condition that no volvieran juntos or at the same time to the state for 25 years.

The Loving will not have another option to accept and declare guilty of violating the Act of Racial Integrity of this state.

In the fall of his destiny, the juez is refractory only to the local army, so that many are sure to be considered “lawillad de Dios”.

“Gods created the white, black, amarilla, malay and red razors, and the ubiquitous continents. If you do not interfere with this rule, you will not be liable for this type of matrimony. [interraciales]. It is clear from this article that he has no intention of making any distinctions.

The couple flew to Washington, but no one felt happy and wanted to return to the place where they lived, looking for their families.

In 1963, in search of help, Mildred decision to write General Robert Kennedy fiscal entities, which passes the card to one of the main groups promoting civil rights.

La misiva llegaría a buenas manos.

El abogado

“It was a young lawyer and he practiced private law. También was a voluntary advocate of the Estadounidense de Libertades Civiles (ACLU), ”Bernard Cohen told Simon Watts, part of the program BBC Witness.

Being a teenager, the case was assigned by the Virginia Legislature.

“I feel very firm that the case was perfect for try unconstitutionality of the Virginia Statutes ”, indicated.

“She was emotionally involved, although, frankly, only she was in practice three years ago when she was healthy at Derecho’s faculty.”

When Cohen joined the Loving, he was impressed not only by his humility and timidity, but also by his appeal.

“Thought the number was fortunate. How can some ally resist resisting the story of their mutual love? Fue un muy buen augurio”.

As an adjective, in English, loving amoroso means the lover of algo and also is the continuous form of the verb love: amando.

“Pocas palabras”

Cohen recorded that “tenían los pies en la tierra. Era gente muy poco pretenciosa. No eran liberal agitadores ni nada por el style. They are simply corrupt people ”.

“Richard Loving was an albanian. My friend Philip Hirschkop, who finally wanted to work in this case, solemnly resigned and said that Loving was the province assured of excellence. Hecho, tenia una tez muy clara y un una marka de quemadura de sol roydedor del cuello ”, contó.

“He was a man of many words, of very sweet voices, and Mildred was the one who had the most to know us.”

Although Cohen was enthusiastic about the case, I think he was pleased una larga batalla wettig, something that surprised the couple.

‘Lo unusual fue la ingenuidad of the lord and lord Liefdevolle about the seriousness of the legal case in the matter of involving them, ”Cohen said.

“Senator Loving reminds me to go to juez to see if I can change my opinion five years later when he is declared guilty.

“When I explained that it was simply not possible and that in this case, in my opinion, I should have read the Supreme Court of the United States, Richard said. boquiabierto y sacudía la cabeza. Casi no podía kreer lo que le staba diciendo ”.

Loving Virginia

There was a complicated legal battle that took place: Loving vs. Virginia.

Watts explains that the defense attorneys are confronted with an obscure statement from the 1860s, which allows the original Virginia case to be dropped and brought to the Supreme Court as a trial.

‘Estaba very nervous. If there is a charcoal from the south in the spring in which I will present the argument before the juices. “But, from now on, he’s been listening to my arguments and believing that he’s better than he can record,” Cohen coined.

Y así fue. With clear voice and much determination, in his historic intervention the abbot said:

“The state is ignoring a very important point that will never be recounted and it is the right of Richard and Mildred Loving to despair over the moon or fall asleep at night knowing that the sheriff will not call her never put a light on his grid in the intimacy of his dormitory ”.

“Loving tienen derecho a irse a dormir por la noche sabiendo que, si no se despiertan la la manana, sus hijos tendrían derecho a heredar of them in intestate succession ”.

“Tienen derecho a la seuridad de saber que si van a dormir y no se despiertan par la mannana, uno de ellos, el sobreviviente, tiene derecho a los beneficios del Seguro Social. Todo eso se les niega ”.

And he swore allegiance to a “great jubilee”.

“We are happy with the result. Make a decision of close to cero a nuestro favor. We immediately call them Loving and the ones we love. ‘¡Ganamos, ganamos!’ y ellos dijeron: ‘¿Qué significa eso?’ And the dijimos that are so significant that podian vivir libremente jw.org af Virginia y no serían condenados por ningún delito ”, opname Cohen.

But what sued this June 12, 1967 Historical fue not only for the Loving Sino for the rest of the country: the Supreme Court abolished the prohibition on interracial matrimony that reigns in Virginia and many other states of the country.

The President of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, classified the laws against interracial matrimony as “onbreekbare para un pueblo libre”.

Cohen, who pleaded guilty in October, has always been guilty of violating the legalization of interracial matrimony in the United States.

“Since this decision has been made the clave in the act of racial discrimination of America. “This is a transcendental case because it refers only to important legal issues, which are deeply rooted in emotions,” said Watts’ lawyer.

“I have a lot of people who are not racist, but are firmly opposed to interracial matrimony and have much time for the sociological effects of the decision. [del caso] Liefdevol se abrieran camino en the mentality of the mayor of the stadiums.

“The mayor of the stadiums does not oppose the interracial matrimony”.

“The freedom to walk for all”

When regressing to his state, the Loving Vivieron in the case that Richard had built for his wife.

Tuvieron tres hijos: Donald, Peggy and Sidney.

Richard died in a car crash in 1975, Mildred crashed in 2008.

One year ago, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the fall of history, Mildred published a statement, from which we will extract a few fragments:

My generation is stable dividend margin for something that needs to be very clear and correct. The Mayoria believes that what he says is the God’s plan to separate the people and that the governor should discriminate against the loved ones.

But he has lived enough now to see great changes. The temples and prejudices of the previous generation he cedid and the young of high are then accounted for if some already have some had right to quarrel.

Rodeada como estoy ahora de hijos y nietos maravillosos, no pasa un día sin que no piense en Richard y en nuestro amor, nuestro derecho a casarnos y lo mucho que meaning for me tener esa libertad para casarme con la persona era era preciosa pari mi, including other thoughts that it was the ‘equivocal person type’ for barracks.

Creo que todos los estadounidenses, sin importer su raza, sin importer su sexo, sin importer su orienta orientation, deberían tener la misma liadad para casarse. The governing body does not have what impresses religious circles some people about others. Especially if there are no civil rights of persons.

If you are a political person, please inform me that Richard’s number and my name are in a judicial case that can help reform love, compromise, justice and the family that many people, white or black, young or old , gay or heterosexual buscan en la vida.

Support the freedom of cascade to all. De eso se trata Liefdevolle y amar”. (I)