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Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies

May 5 2008, AP

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.Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home...

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