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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage - The Fight for Interracial Marriage (Hardcover) Loot Price: R342
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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage - The Fight for Interracial Marriage (Hardcover): Selina Alko

The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage - The Fight for Interracial Marriage (Hardcover)

Selina Alko; Illustrated by Sean Qualls, Selina Alko

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"I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about." -- Mildred Loving, June 12, 2007
For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.
This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, and their three children. It is the story of how Mildred and Richard fell in love, and got married in Washington, D.C. But when they moved back to their hometown in Virginia, they were arrested (in dramatic fashion) for violating that state's laws against interracial marriage. The Lovings refused to allow their children to get the message that their parents' love was wrong and so they fought the unfair law, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court - and won

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Imprint: Arthur A. Levine Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2015
First published: 2015
Authors: Selina Alko
Illustrators: Sean Qualls • Selina Alko
Dimensions: 260 x 225 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-47853-3
Categories: Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues > Parents' divorce & separation, family break-up
Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues > Racism, sexism & prejudice
Books > Children's & Educational > Geography & environment > Geography > Human geography / peoples of the world > General
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN: 0-545-47853-7
Barcode: 9780545478533

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