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Interracial couples celebrate freedom on national holiday
June 12, 2021
By Rangsiya Faihin
Delta Digital News Service
JONESBORO, Ark. – Every June 12th is the anniversary of national ‘Loving Day’. The day recognizes the interracial relationship of Mildred, a woman of black and Native American ancestry and Richard Loving, a white man who were arrested due to violating the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. However, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to ban interracial marriages.
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Rangsiya Faihin is an engineering senior at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. She can be reached at: [email protected]
NOTE: Featured photo by Lareised Leneseur on Unsplash
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