In Popular Culture
- In the United States, June 12, the date of the decision, has become known as Loving Day, an annual unofficial celebration of interracial marriages.
- The story of the Lovings became the basis of two films. Mr. & Mrs. Loving (1996) was written and directed by Richard Friedenberg and starred Lela Rochon, Timothy Hutton and Ruby Dee. According to Mildred Loving, “Not much of it was very true. The only part of it right was I had three children.” The second film, The Loving Story, premiered on HBO on February 14, 2012.
- In music, the case has been the subject of Drew Brody's 2007 folk-music Ballad of Mildred Loving (Loving in Virginia), and Nanci Griffith's 2009 song The Loving Kind. Griffith wrote the song after reading Mildred Loving's obituary in the New York Times, and received the ACLU's Bill of Rights Award for it.
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