Bend / Central Oregon News, Sports, Business, Weather, Entertainment, Classifieds and Local & State Headlines | The Bulletin

Use Advanced Search to filter by date and category. *keyword is required in search field.
start date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
end date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
category:
Archive Home > 2008 > May > 06 > Mildred Loving, 68, broke racial barriers

Mildred Loving, 68, broke racial barriers

By Douglas Martin / The Bulletin
May 6, 2008

Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died Friday at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68.

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

Read complete article

Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.