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Monday, May 05, 2008

Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies




By Dionne Walker
Associated Press Writer

Mildred Loving & husband, Richard in 1965 AP photo

Richmond, Va. - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.

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