Don’t miss out on our next “Created Equal” program titled “In the Matter of Thought: State Law and Interracial Marriages in ‘Loving v. Virginia'” this Thursday, February 5th at 5:30pm at the Columbus Public Library!
In this talk Dr. Stephen Middleton, from Mississippi State University, will look at and interrogate the reasons behind state laws that banned interracial marriages.
Guests attending this talk will be asked to consider the idea
that the passage of the laws that banned interracial marriages had nothing to do with African Americans. It had everything to do with the belief systems of the legislators that passed the law.
Dr. Middleton will also be showing clips from the film “The Loving Story”.
“The Loving Story” documents the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage. The case involved Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred Loving, a woman of African-American and Native-American descent. Married in Washington, D.C., upon returning home to Virginia they were arrested for violating the state’s Racial Integrity Act.
Sponsors include the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
Local partners include the Rosenzweig Arts Center, the R. E. Hunt Museum & Cultural Center, and Mississippi University for Women.
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