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Loving (film)

  1. Who is Richard Loving?A man from Caroline County, VA
  2. What does he do for a living?A white construction worker
  3. Where does he live?Virginia
  4. Who does he fall in love with?Mildred Jeter
  5. Why is there a problem with the two getting married?They would be an interracial couple.
  6. Where do they go to get married?Washington, DC
  7. Where does Richard plan to build them a house?Near her family home.
  8. Why are they arrested? What does Richard point to when they are arrested?Interracial marriages are illegal in Virginia. Their marriage license on the wall.
  9. What do they plead when brought before the court?Guilty
  10. Why does the judge do to their sentence?Suspends it.
  11. What is the condition for the suspension of the sentence?On the condition that they not return to Virginia together again for the next 25 years.
  12. Where do they move?Washington, DC
  13. Why do the Lovings come back to Virginia?So their first child can be born.
  14. What does Richard’s mother do for a living?She’s a midwife.
  15. What does their lawyer say when they are arrested again? He said, erroneously, that they could return to VA.
  16. How many more children do Richard and Mildred have together?2 (Donald and Peggy)
  17. To whom does Mildred write to for help?Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
  18. What does this individual instruct them to do?Appeal for help to the ACLU
  19. Where does the Loving’s lawyer think their case could travel to. (i.e. What court?)US Supreme Court
  20. What magazine profiles their case?LIFE
  21. What does the Virginia State Supreme Court refuse to do?Refuses to sit aside their conviction.
  22. What does Richard tell his lawyer before the case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS)?Tell them I love my wife.
  23. What is the decision of SCOTUS?The Supreme Court unanimously holds that laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
  24. What happens to Richard in 1975? He dies in a car accident in 1975.
  25. Where does Mildred spend the rest of her days?In the home Richard built for her, dying in 2008.