Loving Fortune.

May 6, 2008 at 2:45 PM
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Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished fromm Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68.

Peggy Fortune, her daughter, said the cause was pneumonia.

The Supreme Court ruling, in 1967, struck down the last group of segregation laws to remain on the books — those requiring separation of the races in marriage. The ruling was unanimous, its opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who in 1954 wrote the court’s opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring segregated public schools unconstitutional.

I just love the fact that their surname was Loving and their daughter's surname is Fortune. Loving Fortune. How sweet.

Good on you, Mildred. RIP.