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

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①Have you heard about "Loving Day?" Loving Day is celebrated annually ②on June 12, ③in remembrance of the battle ④that Richard and Mildred Loving fought against racial injustice. It also celebrates the anniversary of Loving vs. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision ⑤what legalized 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 ①to get married. Unfortunately, ②getting married was not as simple in 1958 ③as it does today. Mildred was black and Richard was white. There were laws that forbade people of different races from marrying each other. This was true in many states, including Virginia. ④However, 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 awakened by the police ①breaking into their bedroom. The Lovings ②were taken to jail for ③being married illegally. The law in Virginia not only forbade interracial marriage ceremonies, it also made it ④illegally for interracial couples ⑤to 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 separate continents. The fact ①that he separated the races shows ②that he did not intend for them ③mixing." He sentenced the Lovings to a jail term of one to three years. ④However, he told them that he would suspend the sentence if they agreed ⑤to leave Virginia for a period of 25 years.

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

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

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

①In the words of Chief Justice Earl Warren, "②Under our constitution, the freedom to marry, or not to marry, a person of another race ③reside within the individual and cannot ④be infringed on by the State." The Lovings' case not only won them their freedom ⑤to love but it also granted 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 ①banned interracial couples. Loving vs. Virginia made it ②illegal for these states ③to enforce those laws. This ended a long era of laws ④that had kept Americans ⑤apart.

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

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

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