Naim V. Virginia Case Study

In the case of Loving v. Virginia (1967), an interracial couple by the name of Richard Loving, a Caucasian man, and Mildred Loving, an African American woman, moved to Washington D.C. because of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 that banned whites and blacks from marrying. They both grew up in Virginia which was one of the many states that banned interracial marriages. After a few years of being married, the Loving’s returned back to Virginia to shortly be arrested for violating the miscegenation law. The law prohibited black and white couples from marrying out of state and then returning back to Virginia. Richard and Mildred were both charged and guilty of the crime that sentenced them to a year in jail. The sentence was agreed by the

This whole case was based on racial discrimination by the courts in Virginia. The Racial Integrity law was passed to protect the whites from racial mixing. I highly believe that Virginia was racist and they wanted a white only privileges. But it wasn’t only black people that the state of Virginia was against. They believed that if you weren’t “purely white” meaning that if your bloodline had any drop of another races blood then you couldn’t marry a white individual. Eleven years before there was a case Naim v. Naim in 1955 which was very similar to the Lovings case but, the husband was Chinese and the wife was white. They both lived in Virginia but married in North Carolina which banned white and blacks but not whites and Chinese. They returned back to Virginia after and later years after, Mrs. Niam filed for annulment. She knew that her marriage was violating the law of Virginia so their marriage wouldn’t be valid. Mr. Niam argued to the fact that since that got married in North Carolina, their marriage should be valid in the U.S. Mrs. Niam was granted her annulment and it was appealed by Mr. Niam. During that time, racial wars where going on between whites and