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  • Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies

    05/05/2008 7:36:54 AM PDT · by hepatoma · 96 replies · 144+ views
    Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday. ... In a rare interview with The Associated Press last June, Loving said she wasn't trying to change history — she was just a girl who once fell in love with a boy. "It wasn't my doing," Loving said. "It was God's work."