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Liberty Jail Historic Site

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Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Liberty Jail Historic Site
Phone:
+1 816-781-3188

Hours:
Sunday9am - 9pm
Monday9am - 9pm
Tuesday9am - 9pm
Wednesday9am - 9pm
Thursday9am - 9pm
Friday9am - 9pm
Saturday9am - 9pm


Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 , is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage. The case was brought by Mildred Loving , a woman of color, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as white and people classified as colored. The Supreme Court's unanimous decision determined that this prohibition was unconstitutional, overruling Pace v. Alabama and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. The decision was followed by an increase in interracial marriages in the U.S. and is remembered annually on Loving Day. It has been the subject of several songs and three movies, including the 2016 film Loving. Beginning in 2013, it was cited as precedent in U.S. federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States unconstitutional, including in the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges.
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