ORLANDO, Fla. – Loving Day is an unofficial national holiday that, much like its name, revolves around affection and strong relationships, but its history is more deeply rooted in not-so-distant racism and segregation in the United States.Each year on June 12, the nation is invited to take a moment to remember a key civil case heard by the Supreme Court that would forever change the way Americans were able to find love and marry after more than a dozen states banned interracial marriage.Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, married in Washington in 1958.
Not all was bliss for the couple after they moved to their new home in Central Point, Virginia.According to CNN, just a few weeks after the Lovings moved into their new home,.