	고2 금성(김경한)		6과 어휘의 쓰임
		LESSON 6 The Legacy of Loving Day

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Have you heard about "Loving Day?" Loving Day is celebrated ①annually on June 12, in ②remembrance of the battle that Richard and Mildred Loving fought against ③racial justice. It also celebrates the ④anniversary of Loving vs. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision that ⑤legalized interracial marriage in the United States.

Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving grew up in Caroline County, Virginia, in the U.S. They fell in love and decided to get married. ①Unfortunately, getting married was not as ②simple in 1958 as it is today. Mildred was black and Richard was white. There were laws that ③forbade people of different races from marrying each other. This was true in many states, including Virginia. ④For example, interracial marriage was legal in Washington, DC at the time. ⑤Therefore, they chose to drive to DC, got married, and returned to Virginia to begin their life together.

One night, the newly-married Lovings were ①awakened by the police ②breaking into their bedroom. The Lovings were taken to ③jail for being married ④illegally. The law in Virginia not only forbade interracial marriage ceremonies, it also made it ⑤legal for interracial couples to get married elsewhere and return to Virginia.

The judge looked down at the couple from his bench and told them, "God created the races white, black, yellow, and red, and he placed them on ①separate continents. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for them to ②mix." He ③sentenced the Lovings to a jail term of one to three years. However, he told them that he would ④extend the sentence if they ⑤agreed to leave Virginia for a period of 25 years.

To avoid prison, the couple moved to Washington, DC, but again, life was ①difficult and unpleasant for them there. They faced ②discrimination everywhere. They were not able to ③rent propriety in most parts of the city, and they were often the target of racist ④taunting. Also, they  were separated from their families and had to ⑤support their own young children.

In ①desperation, Mildred sent a letter to Robert F Kennedy, the Attorney General of the United States. Mildred's letter was ②forwarded from the Attorney General's office to the offices of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York. The Union took ③interest in the Lovings' ④case and helped them find a ⑤judge.

Two lawyers felt that the Lovings were ①entitled to be married and to live in the state of their choice. They agreed to work on the case ②for free. The case went through many levels of the justice system and the Lovings' ③appeal was ④granted every time. Eventually their case appeared before the United States Supreme Court. The Court, ⑤however, decided unanimously in their favor. Finally, after nine years of struggle, the Lovings won the right to live together as husband and wife in their own home state.

In the words of Chief Justice Earl Warren, "Under our ①constitution, the freedom to marry, or not to marry, a person of another race ②resides within the individual and cannot be ③infringed on by the State." The Lovings' case not only ④won them their freedom to love but it also ⑤denied the same freedom to every interracial couple in every state in America.

At the time of the case, sixteen states from Delaware to Texas had laws ①banning interracial couples. Loving vs. Virginia made it ②illegal for these states to ③enforce those laws. This ④triggered a long ⑤era of laws that had kept Americans apart.

These laws did not only ①apply to black people and white people; many states also ②restricted relationships with Asians, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics, and other ③ethnic groups. The Lovings ④played an important role in freeing people from laws that ⑤protected them for no other reason than the color of their skin.

Many people ①saw this as the longest-lasting part of the legal ②integration that used to rule the U.S. Now, ③thanks to the Lovings, the freedom to love is something most of us ④take for granted, and Loving Day is the biggest multi-racial celebration in America, with ⑤public events in most large cities across the country.

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