Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states citing "There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause." In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly forbidding marriage between non-whites and whites. Loving Day is not yet an official US-government-recognized holiday, but there is a movement to persuade President Obama to make it so.
Read more about Loving Day: Origins of The Holiday, How The Holiday Is Organized, Loving Day in The Media
Famous quotes containing the words loving and/or day:
“O Give yee thanks unto the Lord,
Because that good is hee:
Because his loving kindenes lasts
To perpetuitee.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CVII (Bay Psalm Book)
“An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)