How Interracial Marriage Bans Ended | Loving v. Virginia

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4:20 The arrow points to Mississippi. Alabama is to the east.
In episode 23 of Supreme Court Briefs, a woman with darker skin and a man with lighter skin get married and get arrested and kicked out of the state of Virginia. For several years, they fight for their marriage all the way to the Supreme Court.
Check out Cypher's video about the film "Loving" here: • Loving (2016) | Based ...
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www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us...
time.com/4362508/loving-v-virg...
www.britannica.com/topic/Lovi...
www.mixedracestudies.org/wordp...
billofrightsinstitute.org/edu...
www.encyclopediavirginia.org/...
time.com/4533385/life-magazine...
www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/0...
Mildred Jeter, a woman of both African American and Native American ancestry, discovers she is pregnant, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian, is the father. The two decide to get married, and they live happily ever after. The end.
Except wait. Nope, in the state of Virginia, interracial marriages are illegal. So Jeter and Loving go up to Washington, D.C., where interracial marriages are legal, tie the knot on June 2, 1958, and return home to live with each other back in Virginia. Well somehow word must got out about the couple, because shortly thereafter, the local sheriff ordered a late night raid of their home.
So yeah, in the middle of the night, police not only burst into their home but also into their bedroom, hoping to catch them having sex, which also was illegal. The Lovings were actually sleeping, and awoke to being arrested for violating Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, the law that said whites and non-whites could not marry each other.
The Lovings pled guilty, and the judge sentenced them to one year in prison. However, their sentence was suspended as long as they moved out of Virginia and never returned as a married couple for 25 years.
So the Lovings moved up to the same city where they got married, Washington D.C. The Lovings did occasionally sneak back down to Virginia, but for five years they lived in DC and basically hated it. As Mildred and Richard’s family grew in DC, they missed their family back home, and probably the clean country air. In 1964, tired of living as an exile, Mildred wrote Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Kennedy referred her letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, who then reached out to the Lovings.
The ACLU’s two volunteer cooperating attorneys, Bernie Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, filed a motion on behalf of the Lovings to the Virginia Caroline County Circuit Court, requesting it to allow the marriage since denying it broke the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The County Circuit Court didn’t respond, so Cohen and Hirschkop sued the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. After no luck there, the ACLU helped the Lovings appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court. While the Virginia Supreme Court also upheld the constitutionality of the interracial marriage ban, it did get rid of the sentence banning the Lovings from the state of Virginia.
It’s important to note that during all of this, Mildred and Richard Loving got a lot of national media attention. They absolutely were not looking for all of this attention, but it obviously did help raise awareness of their struggle, especially after Life Magazine came out and took pictures of them.
Anyway, the ACLU pretty much expected all the pushback from the state of Virginia, so they were well prepared to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Lovings decided to stay home on April 10, 1967, when the Court heard oral arguments. By that time, nine years had passed since they got married.
On June 12, 1967, the Court announced it had unanimously sided with the Lovings, overturning their convictions and ruling Virginia’s interracial marriage ban as unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion, which stated that Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act went against both the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Said Warren: “The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.”

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  • @HelloWorld-xf2ks
    @HelloWorld-xf2ks6 жыл бұрын

    His name was loving how fitting!

  • @julz3tt3

    @julz3tt3

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great film ☺️ sad though the poor guy

  • @FeLiNe418

    @FeLiNe418

    5 ай бұрын

    And hers was Jeter. Kinda rhymes with "cheater" if you ask me.

  • @maenad1231

    @maenad1231

    3 ай бұрын

    @@FeLiNe418 French JETER: to throw oneself (into, out of, etc.) She threw herself into her husbands arms ❤ Latin Roots JETER: Stone, Rock She was her husband’s study, reliable rock 🪨

  • @CynicalHistorian
    @CynicalHistorian6 жыл бұрын

    The Warren Court was kinda amazing. Thanks for joining the show, and we've gotta do it again sometime.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. The ability of Warren to unite justices time and time again was exceptional, and often for huge cases like this one. Thanks for sending some of your subscribers my way, and yes, let's do it again in 2018. :)

  • @BladeTNT2018

    @BladeTNT2018

    2 жыл бұрын

    Earl Warren is my favorite Supreme Court Justice

  • @starbase51shiptestingfacil97

    @starbase51shiptestingfacil97

    Жыл бұрын

    Marriage is a cultural, not necessarily law. It is recognized by law for purposes of inheritance and obligations. SCOTUS failed to cite, that it is protected by First Amendment - Freedom of Expression x2. The two persons express their love and desire to become spouses.

  • @Noticer333

    @Noticer333

    Жыл бұрын

    Warren court was an abomination

  • @deleted-something

    @deleted-something

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@iammrbeatdamn 2018

  • @RoseAbrams
    @RoseAbrams2 жыл бұрын

    how could you possibly deny love for people named Loving?

  • @maenad1231

    @maenad1231

    6 ай бұрын

    It was like they had figurative blindfolds on & earplugs in, in order to ignoring all the glaringly obvious signs they were in the wrong for denying them

  • @ryansenft3315

    @ryansenft3315

    4 ай бұрын

    It's a very fitting name!

  • @maenad1231

    @maenad1231

    4 ай бұрын

    @@ryansenft3315 I love that it allows their holiday (non-national holiday) to be called LOVING DAY!!!

  • @chuckscott-cy7iq

    @chuckscott-cy7iq

    Ай бұрын

    @@ryansenft3315 Yes, Dick Loving is very Fitting : )

  • @milesjolly6173

    @milesjolly6173

    27 күн бұрын

    Because racism

  • @kerred
    @kerred6 жыл бұрын

    See kids, there is no problem with writing a letter to the attorney general or your local politician :-)

  • @FlyinBlaney

    @FlyinBlaney

    6 жыл бұрын

    Derrek McNab My friend wrote to our senators and the White House.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    Always worth a shot!

  • @AjarTadpole7202

    @AjarTadpole7202

    2 жыл бұрын

    Didn't that end up badly for them? I mean yeah it's great for equality and freedom and liberty and all that good stuff but they didn't seem too happy with the spotlight

  • @aidan883

    @aidan883

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AjarTadpole7202 no because Virginia lifts their travel ban and the Supreme Court ruled the racial integrity act as unconditional. It went well.

  • @connro
    @connro6 жыл бұрын

    hmm...alabama seems to have moved a bit to the west...

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Connor Higgins The first mistake I ever made!

  • @ABtheButterfly
    @ABtheButterfly4 жыл бұрын

    "catch them having sex" wow, perverted much? I know the internet hasn't been invented yet but damn, let people have their privacy

  • @rateeightx
    @rateeightx Жыл бұрын

    I feel like this has got to be the best-named Supreme Court case, Or one of the best at least. Loving is just such a fitting name for someone who would wind up, Well, Making more loving legal.

  • @siljeff2708

    @siljeff2708

    4 ай бұрын

    The Chad Loving vs the Virgin Virginia

  • @MicheleHerrmann
    @MicheleHerrmann2 жыл бұрын

    I was said to learn that Mr. Loving died in a car accident a few years later. Wish they could have grown older together.

  • @flamefusion8963
    @flamefusion89636 жыл бұрын

    I haven't heard of this court case. It is crazy how only about half a century ago, you couldn't marry among racial lines.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Flame Fusion Most definitely. Seems like such a foreign culture.

  • @e-cap1239

    @e-cap1239

    2 жыл бұрын

    Think about how even more recently, you couldn't marry people of the same sex.

  • @antionettegreer6635

    @antionettegreer6635

    Жыл бұрын

    @@e-cap1239 People should be able to marry and be with whoever they want of A different race ⁉️ Or of the same sex that is those people's business nobody else's especially if they're not harming you or anyone else just want to be the hell together which I feel is everyone's right as long as it's not underaged children

  • @markdouglas8073

    @markdouglas8073

    11 ай бұрын

    Americans unfortunately still believe in the pseudoscience of race. Putative “race” is neither scientific nor biblical. It is a worthless social construct with only one purpose-discrimination. It won’t disappear as long as we talk about it constantly as if it were real. Says the graduate of Robert E. Lee High School (with supposedly interracial marriage). Ethnicity is a better construct and legally, nationality.

  • @deleetiusproductions3497

    @deleetiusproductions3497

    11 ай бұрын

    Well, not in every state. By 1967, it was only banned in the South.

  • @CityBeautiful
    @CityBeautiful6 жыл бұрын

    Great video and happy holidays!

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    +City Beautiful Thanks so much and same to you!

  • @Gallalad1
    @Gallalad16 жыл бұрын

    Such a fitting title...

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love the fact that their names were Loving. The ACLU must have also recognized that.

  • @Gallalad1

    @Gallalad1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Beat it's the judicial equivalent of striking gold

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    You could argue Brown v. Board of Education is also a fitting title. :)

  • @flamefusion8963

    @flamefusion8963

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Beat True because school makes me board 😉😉😉

  • @qiuyushi2752
    @qiuyushi27523 жыл бұрын

    The name of this case was so fitting

  • @MikeRosoftJH

    @MikeRosoftJH

    2 жыл бұрын

    On a related note, the case which legalized same-sex marriage could have been called 'Love v. Beshear' (except for that the court took 'Obergefel v. Hodges' as the primary case, and consolidated the other cases with it).

  • @peterhickman9082
    @peterhickman90822 жыл бұрын

    My grandparents(My grandmother black, my grandfather white) got married about a year after the decision. And, while living in MASSACHUSETS, the state that is more liberal than American, got a cross burned on their lawn. I hate the world.

  • @richardpodnar5039
    @richardpodnar50393 жыл бұрын

    I recall that in the film "Loving" it was brought out that the couple was not allowed to live in the home they had owned in Virginia due to the racial law.. Despicable!

  • @damonika09
    @damonika092 жыл бұрын

    A lot of interracial marriages in the US wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for this case. Thanks Mildred and Richard Loving.

  • @lettiegrant9447

    @lettiegrant9447

    Жыл бұрын

    Not every state had that stupid law.

  • @damonika09

    @damonika09

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lettiegrant9447 no but unfortunately most of the South did. The South is still backwards too.

  • @Terminatortravis

    @Terminatortravis

    6 ай бұрын

    @@damonika09yeah the in south people don’t like children getting sec change operations and they like the second amendment, and people there don’t have millions of pronouns, such savages

  • @Fabrissable
    @Fabrissable2 жыл бұрын

    "The last state to give them off the books was Alabama..." Me: Oh so I guess they probably held it for like 2-3 years at max because it was at this point undefendable. "...in 2000" Me: *spits water* What in the actual godforsaken world?!

  • @Pikazilla

    @Pikazilla

    Жыл бұрын

    SWEET HOME ALABAMA

  • @vampiregamingyt8754

    @vampiregamingyt8754

    2 ай бұрын

    Yet, incest is encouraged there

  • @ericasmith7005
    @ericasmith70055 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for these! I teach 11th grade English and we've been covering major Supreme Court Cases and analyzing opinions. I've shown this, the Korematsu v. US, and the Roe v. Wade videos and I really think these help introduce the background of these cases to my students. Continue doing a great job and making these videos, which are very student friendly!

  • @ramaanbu7868

    @ramaanbu7868

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing.

  • @ewangent
    @ewangent2 жыл бұрын

    A grave sin, I think as a Scotsman and a Brit I think we should be proud of the fact that in the 1770s we even then allowed interracial marriage. It does make me wonder whether the case of Joseph Knight had some influence on the American Revolution.

  • @d16024

    @d16024

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol. Fix your economy

  • @pimplepoppergang9557
    @pimplepoppergang95576 жыл бұрын

    Probably one of my favorites👍 Keep the good work!

  • @ericpa06
    @ericpa066 жыл бұрын

    Amazing vídeo! Thank you for having made it!

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much :D

  • @dooterscoots2901
    @dooterscoots29014 жыл бұрын

    I live in Virginia I always find myself ashamed of it when it comes to Virginia's past like how we were the first to adopt eugenics as one of the big ones.

  • @mummyneo7112
    @mummyneo71126 жыл бұрын

    I think the court had made the right decision because if you like someone you should be able to marry them no matter what race or gender they are!

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Mummy Neo I think most people agree with you!

  • @christianweibrecht6555

    @christianweibrecht6555

    5 жыл бұрын

    The seniors in my family still despise inter racial marriage

  • @quanbrooklynkid7776

    @quanbrooklynkid7776

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@christianweibrecht6555 I do as well as a black person

  • @davidmartinez688

    @davidmartinez688

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mickkeker1990 no it isn't, if your so concerned about keeping "racial purity" then you are honestly missing out on the beauty and experiences that others have to offer you, sad asf man, enjoy your blue balls and shrinking mind while your at it but don't you dare infringe on other's right to get with and marry who they want.

  • @xenomorphexidious9102

    @xenomorphexidious9102

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@davidmartinez688 Yeah, like what great experience and privilege comes deleting off your roots and nativity? No white person should ever do that. Disgusting.

  • @OrangeHarrisonRB3
    @OrangeHarrisonRB36 ай бұрын

    Fun Fact: Alabama's ban on interracial marriage wasn't lifted until 2000 because they had to get an expert from Mississippi to edit the constitution, Alabama having banned literacy in 1869.

  • @vyentro29
    @vyentro29 Жыл бұрын

    I really like the way you describe these cases !

  • @aquasomethingyouknowwhatever
    @aquasomethingyouknowwhatever2 жыл бұрын

    The surname Loving is strikingly fitting

  • @ADRgman
    @ADRgman3 жыл бұрын

    I like the fact that the Supreme Court said that interracial marriage is not unconstitutional since my girlfriend is a Native American woman and I’m a Caucasian man who are in love with each other. Happy Valentines Day!

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat6 жыл бұрын

    Check out Cypher's video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpuG3LammbeWopM.html Which Supreme Court cases would you like me to cover in 2018?

  • @lennartelbin4259

    @lennartelbin4259

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Beat As you probably know, the Supreme Court is currently in a term with hugely important cases on which they will decide. Why don't make a series when the cases are decided about the most interesting SCOTUS-cases from this year. So basically about Gill v. Whitford, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Carpenter v. United States, that Chris Cristie gambling case and the one on working rights?

  • @delightfullydakota5019

    @delightfullydakota5019

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think you should cover other cases related to free speech of students like your video on Morse v. Fredrick.You should also cover Tinker v. Des Moines,Bethel School District v. Fraser,and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier.Those cases,along with Morse v. Fredrick,is the most referred to cases in determining other forms of student speech.It is really interesting.You should also take Lennart Elbin’s suggestion too!

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lennart, I actually do think it's a good idea to cover some of those cases after they are decided, as they are definitely historical.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the suggestions. Of the ones you listed, I am probably most likely to tackle Tinker first.

  • @ryanedrenhingco7680
    @ryanedrenhingco76802 жыл бұрын

    Damn! In the land of the free, it took a looooong while for some to actually be free.

  • @GZQ9

    @GZQ9

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, unfortunately many of our freedoms are being revoked

  • @lol-xs9wz
    @lol-xs9wz3 жыл бұрын

    My man Earl Warren.

  • @douggoldwater1734

    @douggoldwater1734

    3 жыл бұрын

    if you think about it, Earl Warren is single-handedly responsible for bringing a lot of babies into the world that otherwise wouldn't have happen, man is a life-saver gotta give him props

  • @d16024

    @d16024

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@douggoldwater1734 mixed crap 💩

  • @delightfullydakota5019
    @delightfullydakota50196 жыл бұрын

    I can’t imagine being arrested for simply being married to someone of a different race.It is amazing that one couple can change the such racist laws across the nation forever.There are still some people that believe interracial marriage is bad in the small,Southern town I live in.It is so stupid that some people are still struck in the 1960s.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    We've come a long way, but still have a way to go.

  • @mickkeker1990

    @mickkeker1990

    4 жыл бұрын

    The fuck are you talking about??? How much further could we possible go???

  • @Quinntus79

    @Quinntus79

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mick Keker There are still quite a few laws on the book that keep systemic racism in place.

  • @governorblack
    @governorblack2 жыл бұрын

    I’m really enjoying the Supreme Court Briefs! Any chance of doing Deshaney v. Winnebago?

  • @elicarlson7682
    @elicarlson76822 жыл бұрын

    Congrats! This was my 2,700th video on my watch later list

  • @elicarlson7682

    @elicarlson7682

    Жыл бұрын

    @@viditsinha9707 huh

  • @brianjonker510
    @brianjonker5103 жыл бұрын

    These are great. You need to co many more

  • @nicholasdibari9095
    @nicholasdibari90952 жыл бұрын

    I’m “Loving” these videos 😉

  • @levi4979
    @levi49792 жыл бұрын

    It's so fitting that that his name was Loving.

  • @ashtoncollins868
    @ashtoncollins8682 жыл бұрын

    President During this time: Lyndon B. Johnson Chief Justice: Earl Warren Argued April 10, 1967 Decided June 12, 1967 Case Duration: 63 Days Decision: 9-0 in favor of Loving

  • @EthanNeal
    @EthanNeal6 жыл бұрын

    Shoot, looks like I've been camping in Mississippi without even knowing it. Apparently it's on Georgia's doorstep. XD

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah yeah :D

  • @michaelgreen1515
    @michaelgreen1515 Жыл бұрын

    What a Loving decision ❣

  • @gregoryl.mcgarvey1042
    @gregoryl.mcgarvey10425 жыл бұрын

    Good video of facts with an unbiased approach - A plus

  • @justisolated5621
    @justisolated56215 ай бұрын

    Alabama: Last state to eliminate ban on intertacial marriage Also Alabama: First state to have same siblimg sex

  • @lol-xs9wz
    @lol-xs9wz3 жыл бұрын

    Could you do Reynolds v. Sims, one of my favorite SC cases?

  • @Crunkriz
    @Crunkriz2 ай бұрын

    Currently doing my A-Level US civil rights history course and it's crazy how many times Virginia comes up. Loving v. Virginia, Boynton v Virginia, Morgan v. Virginia, Virginia v. Rives, Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections....

  • @madison_crvt
    @madison_crvt Жыл бұрын

    the fact that this was only 60 years ago is bone-chilling

  • @Cowman9791
    @Cowman97913 жыл бұрын

    4:21, HOLD UP, that is Mississippi, not Alabama, you just lost ONE subscriber for that I'm joking, i love your videos

  • @aaronbradley3232
    @aaronbradley32325 жыл бұрын

    The craziest thing about all this is that Bobby actually read the letter and did something about it when he was Attorney General of the United States. Do you think that would happen today LMAO fuck no I mean heck no

  • @jetsaboteur8788
    @jetsaboteur87884 жыл бұрын

    Would this be considered a substantive process case as opposed to a procedural case since it questioned the actual law(act)?

  • @TheJingles007

    @TheJingles007

    2 жыл бұрын

    It would be both. Substantial due process concerns itself with fundamental liberty rights everyone has, like the right to get married. If a right is a fundamental liberty right, any law affecting it is subject to strict scrutiny analysis in the courts, where the state must show a compelling gov't purpose that is the least restrictive as possible.

  • @papapoot4999
    @papapoot499928 күн бұрын

    Virginia really switched up their attitude being against loving here and for lovers in the future.

  • @turkishman7869
    @turkishman78695 жыл бұрын

    Why Virginia state slogan is "Virginia for lovers" Because It does not sound right for a state bans interracial marriage for that long. Does it have anything related to this case?

  • @trc95
    @trc955 жыл бұрын

    Atha Sorrells and Robert Painter, an interracial couple fought the state of Virginia in 1925 to obtain a marriage license and won. That was 42 years before Loving v. Virginia.

  • @davestrasburg408
    @davestrasburg408 Жыл бұрын

    For decades, l have been fascinated by this case. ln lsrael, "miscegenation" is still impossible; not that living together as married is in any way illegal, as, unlike what many leftists/liberals lyingly claim, lsrael does uphold "international law," and marriages performed legally in other countries are recognized. But the sad fact remains that lsrael is today the only country without a Muslim majority which has not entered the 21st century!

  • @namelessname3260
    @namelessname32606 жыл бұрын

    This makes me loose faith in my state But still Not as bad as Alabama. (damn 2000 though)

  • @normanspurgeon5324

    @normanspurgeon5324

    4 жыл бұрын

    have faith in your dictionary- (just one o in lose).

  • @seneca983

    @seneca983

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@normanspurgeon5324 I'm sure he meant that he became a "loose faith" (in his state).

  • @SylviaRustyFae

    @SylviaRustyFae

    2 жыл бұрын

    Every state has its own run of horrible history. Oregon country, which (on the USA side) included Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming and Montana, banned Black ppl from living anywhere within its territory. And it wasnt until well into the start of the 20th century that the last parts of those bans were removed so that Black ppl cud own homes in Oregon (no clue when the other states ended their bans on Black ppl, im an Oregonian not an Idahoian or whatevs). The whole reason Oregon banned Black ppl was this bullshit racial purity argument. Like they didnt even want Black ppl here as slaves bcuz they feared that cud corrupt their racial purity. No state isnt at least somewhat disgustin in its history and its weird how folks always try to act like some states were the bad ones while others were the good ones.

  • @neverletmego6414

    @neverletmego6414

    2 жыл бұрын

    Alabama: interracial marriage big no but siblings yes yes yes

  • @Terminatortravis

    @Terminatortravis

    6 ай бұрын

    @@neverletmego6414HAHAHA SOUTH INCEST . You realize Oregon has higher incest rates than most of the south ? And look at incest rates in Africa or Asia and get back to me liberal

  • @BTScriviner
    @BTScriviner2 жыл бұрын

    Richard Loving died in a car accident in 1975, Mildred in 2008.

  • @gabrielbubalo1408
    @gabrielbubalo14083 жыл бұрын

    4:21 "Sweet home Mississippi"

  • @joemashburn6637
    @joemashburn66372 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Beats needs an American Geography lesson. At 4:18 calls out Alabama while pointing at Mississippi.

  • @deleted-something
    @deleted-something Жыл бұрын

    I love how you say that he discovers the father, as like she didn't know lol

  • @herberthoover1790
    @herberthoover17903 жыл бұрын

    Instead of Alabama you showed Mississippi Mr. Beat!!!

  • @JayYoung-ro3vu
    @JayYoung-ro3vu2 ай бұрын

    Want to bet that the conservative SCOTUS won't overturn this ruling as Justice Thomas used this to marry his wife from Kansas.

  • @Officialbrody
    @Officialbrody6 жыл бұрын

    Virgina is my state!

  • @meadeskelton3350

    @meadeskelton3350

    6 жыл бұрын

    Evil brody me too. We need to make it great again.

  • @yeeted9466

    @yeeted9466

    6 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @dooterscoots2901

    @dooterscoots2901

    4 жыл бұрын

    I guess all the Virginia peeps here

  • @normanspurgeon5324
    @normanspurgeon53244 жыл бұрын

    Great story- hard to believe the supreme court got it right.

  • @robertace821
    @robertace8214 жыл бұрын

    Omg 2000 Alabama!

  • @shannonbeat
    @shannonbeat2 жыл бұрын

    55 years ago today.

  • @damonteforney8076
    @damonteforney8076 Жыл бұрын

    It’s so crazy how Bans like this tore the country apart and even till this day. The issue of interracial marriage even till this day is a problem. I’m happy for Cases like this. I’m all for interracial marriages. Also, just like Brown Vs BOE, the states defied the Supreme Court decisions which shows we don’t really follow laws when the Court sets them

  • @Orange_Laowai
    @Orange_Laowai6 жыл бұрын

    Do kelo V. New London

  • @SweatyAsUrPits
    @SweatyAsUrPits Жыл бұрын

    Nobody noticed the arrow pointing to the wrong state? 4:18

  • @naruciakk
    @naruciakk3 жыл бұрын

    1958? Like really, I had to double check and… seriously, interracial couples were banned in the second half of XXth century somewhere in the US? How was that possible?

  • @adliala8987

    @adliala8987

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh, this is just barely scratching the surface of ridiculous laws that were in-place back then.

  • @lol-ih1tl

    @lol-ih1tl

    Жыл бұрын

    my country decriminalized homosexuality 7 years before that happened

  • @MatthewJackson-ff5yj
    @MatthewJackson-ff5yj Жыл бұрын

    Great couple!

  • @flocky7521
    @flocky75212 жыл бұрын

    4:19 so you could marry your cousin but not someone of a different race?

  • @donovanlocust1106

    @donovanlocust1106

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah.

  • @euugh8877

    @euugh8877

    Ай бұрын

    You can marry your sister, But not a Sista.

  • @jbgoblue7534
    @jbgoblue7534 Жыл бұрын

    4:20. Mississippi

  • @organizedchaos4559
    @organizedchaos45593 жыл бұрын

    Was Earl Warren a top justice?

  • @yoeljavier593
    @yoeljavier5932 жыл бұрын

    Does that means I can sue my state if they banned it.

  • @PossessedPotatoBird

    @PossessedPotatoBird

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @Akrafena

    @Akrafena

    7 ай бұрын

    and you'll win

  • @patienceboafo1998
    @patienceboafo1998 Жыл бұрын

    A life well lived indeed 👏

  • @justisolated5621
    @justisolated56215 ай бұрын

    Dang i didn't know RFK was involved!

  • @tombrown1898
    @tombrown189817 күн бұрын

    Having grown up in Virginia, I remember this case well. The area where the Lovings lived had long been all but integrated. State segregation laws still applied, but "common law" marriages between races were an open secret.

  • @jlc5148
    @jlc51483 жыл бұрын

    I would really love like a nice happy video for once please

  • @err0rheart932
    @err0rheart9325 жыл бұрын

    Mississippi was the last, Alabama was in 1993.

  • @thedigitalodometer945
    @thedigitalodometer945 Жыл бұрын

    4:20 The arrow points to Mississippi!

  • @roughcollies1811
    @roughcollies18115 жыл бұрын

    love has no color

  • @xenomorphexidious9102

    @xenomorphexidious9102

    4 жыл бұрын

    So it is for stupidity.

  • @theatheists3785

    @theatheists3785

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@xenomorphexidious9102 l will marry your s****r😏

  • @ArkansasDeltaMapping

    @ArkansasDeltaMapping

    6 күн бұрын

    @@xenomorphexidious9102those first four letters in your name fit you well

  • @xenomorphexidious9102

    @xenomorphexidious9102

    5 күн бұрын

    @@ArkansasDeltaMapping What took you so long to say it? XD

  • @thandontantiso3744
    @thandontantiso37442 жыл бұрын

    2000 was now now

  • @victoriabaker6943
    @victoriabaker6943 Жыл бұрын

    Amen. If you get a chance see the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”

  • @brockrunyan2728
    @brockrunyan27284 жыл бұрын

    4:21 Alabama boi

  • @BloodRider1914
    @BloodRider19145 жыл бұрын

    Oh Alabama

  • @mimiwey9014
    @mimiwey90142 жыл бұрын

    Damm Alabama, 2000?!!????

  • @birdstudios978
    @birdstudios9783 жыл бұрын

    0:25 Theend

  • @myxi4689
    @myxi46893 жыл бұрын

    Bernie Cohen and Philip Hirschkop huh? I am so suprised!

  • @kayvan671

    @kayvan671

    3 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @myxi4689

    @myxi4689

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kayvan671 just a Cohencidence

  • @kayvan671

    @kayvan671

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@myxi4689 K

  • @neilhasid3407
    @neilhasid34076 жыл бұрын

    Where did they originally get married? If it was outlawed in Virginia,how did they get married there?

  • @neilhasid3407

    @neilhasid3407

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dale Gribble Thanks Dale. Those that believe in the idea of a "living constitution" have examples like yours in mind. They believe( as opposed to strict constructionists) that the decisions of the S.C. must be adapted to the norms of the times and respond to issues in new ways, ways that the Founding Fathers couldn't imagine( like same sex marriage).

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    The 14th amendment is often one brought up by justices who do view the document as a more "living document." If you think about it, it could be applied to many things, and can be a slippery slope.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    This explains why so many people voted for Trump despite not liking him. They constantly brought up they were really "voting for a Supreme Court justice." I'm not a fan of judicial activism, and it's unfair to label all of the current justices that way, but there is so much fear about who these nine people are. Look at the backlash against Merrick Garland, who was really a fairly moderate guy.

  • @neilhasid3407

    @neilhasid3407

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dale Gribble Good point.Judge Scalia often expressed annoyance over cases that were brought to the court when in his view,they were issues that should have been decided by elected legislatures. Once the court decided to hear a case,their decision would be based on the constitution,one way or the other,because the arguments would be about the constitutionality or not,of a decision or action. If you want,you can see Scalia and other S.C. justices on KZread.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    I go back and forth about Scalia. Sure, he always said he was a strict constructionist, but often he was guilty of also interpreting the Constitution in a way that likely fit his worldview. If he was a bit more principled, he might just be one of the greatest justices in American history. In DC v Heller, for example, if he was principled he would have also saw to it that the legislative branch handle that issue.

  • @darioguerra3065
    @darioguerra30656 жыл бұрын

    Why is this video unlisted?

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Dario Guerra I haven't officially released it yet lol. So Congratulations on first!

  • @SECONDQUEST

    @SECONDQUEST

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Beat I'm here now so it's public. YAY!

  • @everynameiwantedwastoolong6887

    @everynameiwantedwastoolong6887

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dario Guerra how did you find the link to this video?

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    I accidentally put it on the Supreme Court Briefs playlist early!

  • @defaultusername1145
    @defaultusername1145 Жыл бұрын

    4:21 bruh really

  • @Cattail4546
    @Cattail45462 жыл бұрын

    Alabama? Sweet Home Alabama? Ban interracial marriage but fine with relative-marriage?!?

  • @MyRapNameIsAlex
    @MyRapNameIsAlex6 жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile everyone screamed that's just the way things are, that's just the way God intends things to be, why are you rocking the boat on behalf of race mixers, etc. There did not seem to be any rational reason to hope things would ever change, and yet they persisted. Also, thanks for exposing me to the word invidious.

  • @MyRapNameIsAlex

    @MyRapNameIsAlex

    6 жыл бұрын

    I claimed religion as A reason. Not THE reason. And since you agree with me that it was A reason, what's your point? That religion was used on both sides of the argument? Well obviously I can't argue with that since there is so much evidence that it's true.

  • @MyRapNameIsAlex

    @MyRapNameIsAlex

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sorry. I didn't see that as an actual intention of mine. My initial reaction was just to paint a picture of how and why people felt like this was the way things were and should remain. Mainly because in the present day I run into a lot of "well that's just the way it is and the way it's supposed to be" and a refusal to imagine that things could be any other way.

  • @flamefusion8963

    @flamefusion8963

    6 жыл бұрын

    True. I think it was more just racism and not so much religion.

  • @asnekboi7232

    @asnekboi7232

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why do you care how someone loves Also race is just a social construct and god isn’t real and all humans Came from Africa

  • @xenomorphexidious9102

    @xenomorphexidious9102

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@asnekboi7232 We care cus we see it different. Not cus "oh you're disgusting cus you're so dark", but cus you know science and history about races to be against this unnatural decision. Still won't delete the idea that we're different, even if humans have phenotypes, not races. God was never real. Africa is home to humanity, but not to all kinds of humans, as Eurasia invented different species of humans it's own way.

  • @sylvio1687
    @sylvio16873 жыл бұрын

    wait interracial marriage was legalized in alabama only in 2000?

  • @MikeRosoftJH

    @MikeRosoftJH

    3 жыл бұрын

    The law criminalizing interracial marriage still existed, but the state couldn't enforce it.

  • @windowstudios45alt
    @windowstudios45alt Жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the famous Alabama-Louisiana border

  • @teddyboragina6437
    @teddyboragina64376 жыл бұрын

    wrong alabama

  • @mcarstensen

    @mcarstensen

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's Mississippi, the left handed Alabama.

  • @andres-zc2xd
    @andres-zc2xd Жыл бұрын

    “racial integrity” 😭 the fuck is that

  • @celtiberian07
    @celtiberian072 жыл бұрын

    Why did they break in there house at 2am when they could have rang the bell in day time

  • @viditsinha9707

    @viditsinha9707

    Жыл бұрын

    They wanted to catch them having the thing So they could arrest them on that pretext

  • @fixpontt
    @fixpontt3 жыл бұрын

    fun facts: 5:08 , one of the judge was White and one was Black but both were whites

  • @melissadwiggins
    @melissadwigginsАй бұрын

    4:21 how dare you! That is not Alabama! That is my home state of Mississippi! And yes, it was probably Alabama that did it last.😂

  • @jeremyedmond3095
    @jeremyedmond30956 жыл бұрын

    4:21, you're pointing to Mississippi there. Alabama is the next state over to the east.

  • @iammrbeat

    @iammrbeat

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Jeremy Edmond Yeah, I corrected it in the description.

  • @carboy101

    @carboy101

    6 жыл бұрын

    They're practically the same state to be honest.

  • @markregev1651
    @markregev16512 жыл бұрын

    Why can’t the lower court judges be expelled for interpreting the constitution this way?

  • @rockCity777

    @rockCity777

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because that's not how it works. I am way oversimplifying (ie. I'm wrong), but the basic function of the court is to find out what happened in the case, and apply the appropriate consequence based on the evidence. In the US, the court does this mostly by basing their judgements on precedent, or case law, meaning decisions made by a higher court on the same issue. A lower-court judge doesn't base their decision on the constitution, but the higher court's ruling on the constitution as it pertains to the case. (assuming it is a constitutional issue) Even if a judges ruling is later overturned by a higher court, that doesn't mean that the previous ruling was "wrong" because of it. What would make a ruling wrong, would be going against precedent and established law, in a matter where all the information needed to make the "correct" ruling have been brought into the attention of the court. Difficult constitutional questions are deliberated in the SC, precisely so that those decisions can then be applied by the lower courts in the future, to solve similar cases. But as a general rule, you cannot be punished for doing something that was not against the law at the moment you did it.

  • @Terminatortravis

    @Terminatortravis

    6 ай бұрын

    Why can’t all Democrat lawmakers be thrown In jail for interpreting the second amendment as entire gun groups being banned ?

  • @averagejoe6031
    @averagejoe60313 жыл бұрын

    Why is it always Virginia?