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C-SPAN Radio Specials: Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Washington, DC
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Loving v. Virginia is the eighth case in C-SPAN Radio's special series, this landmark case looks at the issues of interracial marriage and the Constitutional right to equal protection. The Lovings were charged with violating Virginia's "Racial Integrity Act," banning marriages between a white person and a non-white person. Though they pled guilty, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion on their behalf in 1963 to vacate the judgment on the grounds that the law ran counter to the Fourteenth Amendment. This set in motion a series of lawsuits which ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Updated: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 11:22am (ET)

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