“The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.” “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents,” the judge said. The trial judge who convicted Richard and Mildred Loving said such laws reflected divine will.
Virginia, 16 Southern states had made it a crime for interracial couples to marry. When the Supreme Court convened in 1967 to decide the case of Loving vs.
