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On February 14, the same night that it premiers on HBO, the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series will show clips from The Loving Story, with guests attorney Bernard Cohen, who was part of the ACLU team that represented the Lovings before the U.S. Supreme Court, and Peggy Fortune, the Lovings\u2019 daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From director and producer, Nancy Buirski\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Though often overlooked among the pantheon of civil rights stories, Mildred and Richard\u00a0Loving\u2019s quest to live together as husband and wife in the state of Virginia was a pivotal\u00a0struggle. A white man and a part black, part Cherokee woman were in love and did not\u00a0understand why their marriage was a criminal offense in the eyes of state. Their effort to\u00a0make this right\u2014 to not live in shame or in exile\u2014 is a universal one and reminds us of\u00a0oppressed and exiled people everywhere. The Lovings were banished from their home for\u00a0their commitment to each other, and they fought long and hard to return to it, to love each\u00a0other within the bosom of their family.<\/p>\n

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Richard and Mildred Loving (AP photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was Mildred Loving who took up their cause, who summoned the will and the courage\u00a0to fight a hostile system that maintained bans against interracial marriage. She did not\u00a0set out to be a hero or to change the world. But her need to find a way to live with her\u00a0husband in their home state of Virginia came at the time of momentous civil rights\u00a0change. So their quest was made not just for themselves, but for a multitude of others\u2014 Mildred\u2019s story became not just her story, but the story of many.<\/p>\n

The film investigates the life and legend of Mildred and her husband Richard, little-known heroes of the Civil Rights Era. Though taught in law schools and undergraduate civil\u00a0rights courses, their story has not had a full documentary treatment, nor has the subject\u00a0that generated their story \u2013 miscegenation in America. Anti-miscegenation has been\u00a0sensationalized fictionally, starting with the landmark film The Birth of a Nation<\/em>, but it\u00a0has never been explored substantively in non-fiction film. This is a surprising omission\u00a0given miscegenation\u2019s intricate ties to racism.<\/p>\n

There are few Supreme Court rulings that have had the impact that the Loving case had\u00a0on our culture and politics. In 1967, the year of Loving v. Virginia, 16 states had laws\u00a0against interracial marriage. Had Barack Obama\u2019s white mother and black father lived in\u00a0one of those states when they married in 1961, their marriage would have been a felony.\u00a0Yet the culture of interracial marriage is slow to catch up with legal realities. The 2000\u00a0census found only 4.9% of US marriages were interracial.<\/p>\n

White Supremacy groups are growing in the US \u2013 the very communities that perpetuated\u00a0and maintained anti-miscegenation laws up to the 1967 Supreme Court ruling. While\u00a0we\u2019ve elected the first mixed-race President, we also recently witnessed a Louisiana\u00a0Justice of the Peace refusing to marry a mixed-race couple. Anti-miscegenation\u00a0sentiments are at the heart of racial segregation and apparently still alive today. The\u00a0struggle for same-sex marriage has important civil rights parallels. Both address basic human rights.<\/p>\n

The Loving Story rouses discussion and debate about interracial marriage and tolerance\u00a0in the US. It brings together all groups with stakes in marriage equality to seek out\u00a0commonalties and understanding. It examines the miscegenation crime the Lovings were\u00a0accused of committing \u2013 its roots based in slavery and its lingering, pervasive impact.\u00a0Freshly revealed, the Loving\u2019s story inspires mixed race couples and their children to\u00a0share their struggles and claim their unique identities.<\/p>\n

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The Loving Story is an Augusta Films Production. It was directed by Nancy Buirski, produced by Nancy Buirski and Elisabeth Haviland James, and edited by James.\u00a0The documentary is fiscally sponsored by Living Archives, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, created by legendary documentarian DA Pennebaker, and by the Southern Documentary Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Loving Story is co-produced by HBO Documentary Films and will be broadcast\u00a0on HBO in February, 2012. The film has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy demands wisdom.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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