Loving vs. Virginia

This case was decided today in 1967. Via Deb:

In 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia. The Lovings returned to Virginia shortly thereafter. The couple was then charged with violating the state's antimiscegenation statute, which banned inter-racial marriages. The Lovings were found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail (the trial judge agreed to suspend the sentence if the Lovings would leave Virginia and not return for 25 years).

The court decided that the Virginia law violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. Let me remind you, this was in 1967.